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CONTRIBUTJ3D ARTICLES :- A Carrickman's Diary . Rev . P . Fower . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Keating Memorial . Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Waterford Merrys . E . D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

EDITED DOCUMENTS :-- County of Waterford. 1775 . T . U. Sadleir . . . . . . . . MaterialCondition of Waterford Churches (1615) . Rev . P Mouumenta Sepulchralia . Jas . Buckley . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Geneva Matthew Butler Old Wills . I . R . B . Jennings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Barron's Correspondence . s . urn Crnrrntme .... Power Papers . T . A . Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sundrie Priests and Friers . Rev . P. Power . . . . . . . .

ARCHBOLOGICAL & LITERARY MISCELLANY :- By Rev . P . Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

NOTES & QUERIES :- Ancient School Custom in Co . Wexford . J . C . . . . . . . . . Bishop Richard Pierce . Rev . P . Power . . . . . . . . . . . . Bishopric of Waterford in 1688 . Wm . H . G . Flood .... Bonmahon Paper Currency. &c . Rev . P . Power .... Carrick-on-Suir Superstition . J . C . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapels Burned in Co . Wexford. 1798 . W . H . G . Flood Introduction of Poor Law to Ireland . Rev . P . Power John O'Daly's Birthplace ). . . . . . . Keating Memorial 1 . . . . . . . Keating and his Servant Symon . r . eit3erni: . . . . . . . . Lynch's Greek Grammar . s ua Caraime . . . . . . . . Morris Family of Waterford . Hon . E . Morris . . . . . . . . Order of Liberators . J . C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Denn . S . Ua C~iyrnime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Povrier Family of Co . Waterford . J . J . Piper . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . .. ., ,, Glasha Rev P Power Rev . Simon Walsh. Irish Scholar . . . , . . . . . . . . Shea Family of Carrick . Captain A . G . Shea . . . . . . . . Tadhg Gaodhalach . s . U A Cqrniae . . . . . . . . . . . . The Thunderer of the "Times." J . C . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walsh of Piltown Jas Buckley Waterford Merrys . Rev . P . Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . I t , R. Merry Del Val .. Students in Louvain . Rev . P . Power .... William I11 . in Waterford . J . Buckley . . . . . . . . Wilsotl's History of Waterford . Rev . P . Power ...

49 Power 114

36 1. 86

128 67

103. 154 114

INDEX .

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Abbeyside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Across Australia" . . . . . . . . "Adventures of Suibhne Geilt" Alcock. Alexal-ldcr a . . . . . . . .

.... Allen. Jas.. of Reask. his will

. Badcoclc. Jonathan. his will .... Baggodstown . . . . . . . . . . . . Bag. of Ardmore . . . . . . . . .. Dronlore . . . . . . . . Ballenecowl~ery . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballenvoige . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballenvoile . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballicashen . . . . . . . . . . . . Ralliglassin . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballilogc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballinaboola. Seizure for Rates a t Ballinakill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballingarran . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballycaghsoust . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ a l l ~ f o ~ l e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballygunner . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballykeoghane . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballykeoghe . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballynowmabagh . . . . . . . . Ballynvarry . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballyrin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballyshea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballyvooly . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbeahy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barnadowne . . . . . . . . . . . .

.... Barnard of Prospect Hall Barristown. Seizure for Rates at Barron. Philip. his Correspondence . . . . . . Irish College

. . . . . . . . Beady. John. his will

Beresford. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bishops-Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blakesland Boate of Duckspool . . . . . . . . . . . . Bog. Moving. near Golden . . . . . . . . Bolton. of Faithlegg . . . . . . . . . . . . Bolton. William. his will . . . . . . . . Bonmahon Paper Money . . . . . . . . Bray. John. Burgess of Clonmel .... .. Mrs . Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . Brownrigg. of Affane . . . . . . . . . . . . Bryan. Gerald Lewis. of Roskrea .... Buckley. Rev . M . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Burke. Davis. his will I....

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Rev Alexander Butler. Archbishop Edmond. his tomb .. Theobald fitz James . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . , of Cloghoge

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Callaghan. Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cane. Colonel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carew. Shapland . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Robert. of Snowhill

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlow. Battle at . 1799 . . . . . . . . . . Carrickbeg church ruin sold

. . . . . . . . .. school built (1790) Carrick. List of Subscribers to New Chapel a t

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carrickman's Diary Carrick. Marriages in (1 787-1809) . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . .. New Chapel built in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Suir frozen a t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Superstition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casey. Rev . Mathias

. . . . . . . . . . . . Cashel Cathedral. Tombs in Cashel Parish Church. Tombs in . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Castlehoyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cavendish. Sir H .

. . . . . . . . Chapels burned in Co . Wexford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chateau St . Patrice

Christchurch Cathedral. Dublin. Tombs in ....

.... , , .. Waterford .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christmas of Whitfield

. . . . . . . . . . . . .... Clancy. John. his will *

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clandimisse in Co . Watcrforcl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clashmore

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cloghmantagh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clonmel. Cantred of. Pricsts in. 1610

Clonytibred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coghlan oi Ardoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Carricklea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colbert. Rev . Mr .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Common Land of Waterforcl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commonwealth. Ireland under the

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comyn. Bishop Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Congreve. Ellen

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. John. oi' Mount Congrcvc Cookc. Deborah. her will .

.... .. John. his will Cooleroe . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Cooleveheny Corbally. Prebend of .... Cormaclr. Sarah. her will Courtsmartial a t Carsick Crooke . . . . . . . . . . . . Croslrea . . . . . . . . . . . .

.... Cuff. ~ i g l i t Hon . James C~mymore . . . . . . . .

D'Arcy. Rev . M., of Carsick

, , .. Elegy on . . . . . . . . Darvillc. John

Dayell. Clement . . . . . . . . .... Deane. Bishop. his tomb .... Defenders. a faction

Denn. Patrick. of Cappoquin Den. Patrick. of Grenan

.... Densland in Kilbleinc . . . . . . . . . Deecc. Bar of

Devany. Stephen. informer .... Devonshire. Duke of

iii.

120 153

63 128

1 6 3 55 53 23

119 141 35

192 51

. . . . . . . . . . . . Dillon. a priest. victim of Penal Laws 166 Dirremon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dobbin, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Dobbyn. Hannibal. of Ballynalcill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Thomas. his will (1705) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 .. William (1704) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 .. ..

Donoghe. Thomas. "now primate of Armagh" Dorothy. Thomas. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . Doudney. Rev . David. his printing press .... Downey. Edmond. novelist . . . . . . . . . . . .

.... .. s s Publishing house of Dowrode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doyle. Francis. flogged a t Carrick . . . . . . . . Drowncanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drumgallon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duckett of Whitestown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dunne. Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Eeles. John. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Egan. Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ellis. John. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emly. Diocese of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English of Munsbro' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Everard. Father John. O.F.M. . . . . . . . . . . . .

George. of Garrandillon. his will ) ) .... . . . John. his will . . . . . . . . . . . .

Everson. Thomas. of Urny . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fagan. Father Nicholas . . . . . . . . Fennell. James-his marriage . . . . . . . . Ferrier. Major . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ffaylballyboe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fitzgerald. Catherine. als Villiers. her will .. John. his will . . . . . . . . .. Major . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . .. Sir Thomas Judkin Fitzharris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. John. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . Fitz Nicholas. Redmond . . . . . . . . . . . . Fling. Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . .. John. his will Flood. Maurice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foare. Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foilinge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fortescue. Lord . . . . . . . . Fowlow. Edmond. his will

Friers. Sundrie in Waterford. &c . (1610) . . . . . . . . Funucan. Dennis. his will

Gafney. Bishop. his tomb . . . . . . . . . . Galle. Walter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garde. Attorney . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . Garranspoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.... Garrynlore . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrynemean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Genevan Commissioners . . . . . . . . .. Emigrants . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . Geneva. New Gisborne. Coll . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glandalkin . . . . . . . . . . . . Glasha. Power of . . . . . . . . . . . . Glendalough. Report on . . . . . . . . Glestenanlorlcmdarry . . . . . . . . Gortonary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graindg in Co . Kilkenny . . . . . . . . Graintestowne . . . . . . . . . . . . Graney. Dermit. his wjll .... rant.' ~ b b 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . Gration. Goss. his will . . . . . . . . Green of Killmanahan . . . . . . . . .. Killnamack . . . . . . . . Griffin. James . . . . . . . . . . . . .. William. his will .... Gortanetubritt . . . . . . . . . . . . Gorthaul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grumbley. John. his will .... G ~ ~ i d e (Illustrated) to Waterford Gumbleton of Castlericlcard ..... Guyry. Daniel. his will . . . . . . . .

Hagherine. Maurice . . . . . . . . . . . . Hamocksyowne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Handbook for Travellers in Ireland .... Handcox. Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden & Rivers. Bankers . . . . . . . . . Hayes. Maurice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hearn. Rev . Mr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henebry. David. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . Henriestown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Herbert. Rev John. eloped 6 ' 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. N 25

Holy Ghost Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Horsall. Bishop. his tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hugh Boyesgate. a place-name 58 Hussey. Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24. 25

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Icarrin in Co . Wateriord 129 I lanikean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Ivernoir. F . D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Jackson of Glanbeg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Jerpoint Abbey. Tombs in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Igeane of Belmount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Kearney. Archbishop David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keating. James. his will 189

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Rev . Dr . Geoffrey 19. 37. 125. 151. 197 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . , his Memorial 46. 47 .. .... . I Subscriptions to Memorial 153 ..

Robert. of Knoclragh. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 .. Meily of Knockalara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Lismore - 51 Tyrcullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ..

Kelly. Edmond. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Kelogs (both) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kennedy of Johnstown. Co . Dublin 54

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kenny. St.. tombs in his Cathedral 55 . Keylf erikin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Kilbarmedan Parsonadge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . . 119 . . . . . . . . Kilbarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Kilbridy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Kilburne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilcaragh 116. 120 Kilcash. Lament for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Kilcrone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilgabrell 133. 134 Killea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I~illmallow 133. 134 Killoure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 IZilmacleage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Kilmeadan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 I(ilmenocke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

vii . Kilmocum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilmooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilotteran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milp'ipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilronan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilsaynis (Kilj amis) . . . . . . . . . . . . Knockdrumlea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I(noc1degan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myfe, Piers of Rowestown . . . . . . . .

Lackey. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lane. Gowen. his will . . . . . . . . . . . .

. .. Rev F.. of Carrick . . . . . . . . Lanigan. Bishop. of Ossory . . . . . . . . . Lawlestowne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee. Bolton. of Waterford . . . . . . . .

.... .. Mary. als Keating. her will Leighlin Church. Tombs in . . . . . . . . Lelraghes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leonard. Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Libertors. Order of . . . . . . . . . . . . Limerick. S t . Mary's Church. Tombs in

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisdarragh Lisdowney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisnakill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lombard. Archbishop Peter . . . . . . . . .. Dean Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . Lonergan. Rev . William. of Carrickbeg

.... Louva.in, Waterford Students in

.... Lynch. Patrick. his Greek Grammar Lysaght of Curryglas . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mapliton . Bishop. his t o d b . . . . . . . . Marshall. Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . May. Sir James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McCarthy. Rev . P.. Carsick . . . . . . . . McGragh. Miler. his tomb . . . . . . . . McGuire. Arthur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKenna. Rev . Mr.. Carrick . . . . . . . . Meade. Garrett. of Newtown . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Meagher. William. his will Meilerstowne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Merry Charity. JVaterford . . . . . . . .

Merry del Val. Cardinal . . . . . . . . Family of Waterford .. . . . . . . . . ... Geo . Pitney. artist . . . . . . . .

Methodist Meeting House. Carrick .... Middleton. Lord . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Millods'towne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miltowne

Moloney. a priest. victim of Penal Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . Monellyer

MonemC Willm oge .... Mongan . . . . . :. . . . . . Monumenta Sepulchralia

.... Mooney. John. his will Moore. James. Mayor ....

.... .. of Saperton Morris. family of. Waterforcl . . . James. of Newtown

. . . . . . . . . . . William .... Morrissey. Thomas

. . . . . . . . l'ullenbrohie Murphy. Edmoncl. his will

.. John . . . . .... Musgrave. Christopher .. of Ballyanchor

.. Richard ....

.... Naas. Battle a t (1798) Nash. Xicholas. of the Newhouse Nashpole. Vincent. of Pottlerath Natural Phenomena observed a t Carrick. 1787-1809

. . . . . . . . . . . . Newhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . Newport. Simpn

.... Newtown. near Passage

.... Nucornbe. Hester will of

O'Brien. a priest. prisoner (1798) .... OIBrudair. David. Poems of .... O'Daly. John. his birthplace

. . . . . . . . . O'Daniel. Rev Father

. . . . . . . . Odle of Mount Odle

. . . . . . . . Off ea. John. his will OIHedian. Dean John. his tomb

. . . . . . . . . . . . Old Haggard

INDEX. ix.

O'Mara, Rev. Mr., Carrickbegg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 Orde, Thomas, Sec. to Lord Lieutenant . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 O'Reilly, Miles John, letter of his t o Philip Barron .... c.... 6 8 Ornlond, Earls of, their tombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O'Rourlre, Father RIagnus :... 145 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Osbone, Sir William 50

O'Snllivan, Humphrey, his diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143, 14s Owning als. Bemley . . . . . . . . . . . . ...'. . . . . . . . . 61

Paulo, John de St., Archbishop Dublin, his tomb . . . . . . . . 3 7 Payne, "Apostate and Informer" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 GG

. . . . . . . . . . . . ,, John, Bishop oi Meath, his tomb 37 "Peep of Da37" Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petrie, Dr. Gco., DIemorial to 9 5 Pillce, Bishop Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Pilltowne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133, 134 i t Major.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pomeroy, Arthur 53 . . . . . . . . Poor Law, its introduction into Waterford :... 148

Ponsonby, Right Hon. John, List of Waterford Gentry compiled by 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Porter, Thomas, of Ballydrislane 5 4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Portneholl 129 Portugese Coin found in Watertord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fottlc, Robert :... 3, 149 Powcr, Bishop John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 34, 75

Canon James . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Thomas, of Clonmell .... family of Glasha . . . . . . . .

,, Co. Waterford .... Geoffrey, his will . . . . . . . . Gualterius, of Cheekpoint, will oi Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Pairick, of Darrigle

. . . . . . . . Rey, Edmond, S. J. ,, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . ,, John . . . . . . . . . . . . ,, Michael

, , William, of Carrick &c. Richard of Clashmore . . . . . . . .

, , Garrann~orris .... ,, Gurteen . . . . . . . .

Robert, of Ballybanogc, will of

x . INDEX . Power. Thomas. of Newtown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . William of. Ballyvoyle. will of 189 . . . . . . . . Priests. Sundrie in Co . Waterford. &c . (1610) 122

Purcell. Theobald. of Kilcurl ....

Quarry. Isaac. of Knockane. will of .. of Johnstown . . . . . . . . Q L I ~ ~ . Henry G&.. Esq . .... Quirke. Rev . P . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rathlmockbeank . . . . . . . . . . . . Rathmoell an. Vicaradge of .... Raughter. Thomas. a priest .... Rawheen (near Passage) .... "Records by Spade and Terrier" Redmonds. Timothy. his will .... Rice. James. his monument .... Roach of Scartleagh . . . . . . . .

.... Robert. Thomas. his will Robin. Jane. her will . . . . . . . . Rogers. Henry. his will ....

. . . . . . . . Rooth. John. fitz Piers liosenan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . Roveray. J A Du Rowerstowne . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan. Rev . Mr . . . . . . . . . . . . .

School Custom (Ancient) in Co . Waterford .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sexton. Rev . P .....

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shea family of Carrick . . . . . . . . Sheehan. William. of Newtown

. . . . . . . . . . . . Shee. Lucas. of Uppercourt Sherlock. Edmund. oi Butlerstown. his will ....

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. James. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul. of Butlerstown ..

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shortall. Oliver

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smythestowne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Smyth. Rev . M

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stanre. Henry . . . . . . . . S t . Catherine's Priory. Waterford

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. John's. Waterlord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leger ..

St . Michael's. Waterford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Olave's

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Omers .. Patrick's. Waterford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Peter's . - . . . . . .

Sterling. Capt . (Thunderer). a Waterford man . . . . . . . . Stonehonse. Vjlladge named . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Strange. Laurence (Medicus). Paul. and Thomas . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Strong. Peter. a priest .. Richard. of Dunkitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swadler. preaches Irish sermon ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tadhg Gaodhalach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tafeghry

Talbot. Richard. Archbishop. ~ n b l i n . his tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tibberactny

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tiniskelly Tipperary. Pricsts in (1610) . . . . . . . . . . . . Tobyn. David. of Lyrath . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . Toole. John. of Newtown Tothall. Thomas. his will . . . . . . . . . . . . Tregury. &chbishop. his tomb . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . Tubsid. Keating's Chapel a t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tumpellagh

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tybbred Tyreloyne (Tintine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyror! e. Lord

Uinble. Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Usher. of Canty 53

"Valor Beneficiorum" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Vergennes. Le Comte de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viking Club 4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Villiers. Lord 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wall. of Coolnamuck 53

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wallop. Sir H.. his tomb 37

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wdsh. Edmd fitz Robert 56 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ) ) Walter 61 .. James. of Ballygunner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 .. John. of Barrybeaghy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 .. Mountain History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 &c.. 129 &c . .. of Piltown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18. 101. 192

xii . INDEX .

Walsh. Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Peter. of Belline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Piers fitz Edmd .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev J.. of Cappoquin - . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert fitz Philip of Hilltown .. . . . . . . . .

J y . . . . . . . Tomard . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . , , of Ballenecowhey Thomas. Archbishop. Cashel .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . J , and Richard

" Waterford and the Civil War" . . . . . . . . .. Bishopric (1686) . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Co~mty in 1775 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. City Priests (1610)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. County .. .. Churches. Condition of (1615) .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waton. R., of Kilkenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wells. Simon. Will of

Westminster. St . Edward's Chapel. Tombs in .... TVexford Priests (1610) . . . . . . . . . . . . Whelan. Rev . N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White. Dr . James. V.G. . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White of Whitefort Whitestown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . William T I 1 . in Waterford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Wilson's "Waterford" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wiseman of Waterford

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wise. Maurice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Robert. of Creadan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TVoodlock. Patrick. a priest

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Worthwill of Amberhill . . . . . . . . . . . . TVoulfe. Walter. builds school in Carrickbeg

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yo~~nge . Rev . Mr .

JOURNAL OF THE WATERFORD

& SOUTHHEAST OF IRELAND

A R C H ~ O L O G I C A L SOCIETY.

FIRST QUARTER, JANUARY TO MARCH, 1913.

WATERFORD & SOUTH*EAST OF IRELAND

ARCHEOLOGICAL 'SOCIETY.

President :-

T H E MOST REVEREND R. A. SHEEHAN, D.D., F.R.S,A

Vice-presidents :- EARL ROBERTS, F.M., G.C.B., V.C., &c.

JOHN N. WHITE, J.P., M.R.I.A. R, J. USSHER, D.L., M.R.I.A.

(For,Co. Tipperary)--COUNT E, DE LA POER, H.M.L. (For do . Waterford)-C. PERCEVAL BOLTON, J.P.

(Fnr Co. Wexford)-CAPT. G, E. H. BARRETT-HAMILTON, B.A., J.P., M.R.1, A, (For ~o.'Kilkenny)-REV. W M . P. BURKE.

Committee :- SIR W. G, D. GOFF, Bt., D.L., J.P. JAMES A. TUCKER. WILLIAM GALLWEY, D.L., J.P. REV. P, POWER, M.R.I.A. VERY REV. DEAN HACKETT, M.A., B.D., &c. WILLIAM A. DOBBYN. ALEXANDER NELSON, D.L., J.P. HENRY D. KEANE. MISS E. M. PIM. DR. JOSEPH T , WHITE, Ald. ,

Hon. Secretary :- REV. W. J, O'CONNELL, The Presbytery, George's St., Waterford

Hon, ~ r a s u r e r :-

PATRICK HIGGINS, J.P., F.R.S.A,, 35, Catherine Street, Watsrford

Bankers :-

T H E MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK, Waterford

Members of the Society.

Barrett-Hamilton, Capt. G. E. H., J.P., B.A., M.R.I.A., Kilmanock House Campile, Waterford,

Barron, E. Winston, J.P., Woodstown, Waterford Beary, Michael, C.E,, Dungarvan Benner, H. E,; J,P., Bellevue Terrace, Tramore Boadle, John W . , c/o. Arthur Elliott, 4 Western Drive, Grassendale, Liverpool Board of Works, T h e Secretary, Dublin Blake, Lady, Myrtle Grove, Youghal. Bolton, C. Perceval, J.P., Brook Lodge, Halfway House, Waterford Brenan. R. E., Post Office, Dungarvan Buckley, James, M.R.I.A., I I , Homefield Road, Wimbledon, Surrey Burke, W. L., National Bank, Dublin Burke, Rev. W. P., Cahir Burtchaell, G. D., M.A., L.L.D, 44, Morehampton Road, Dublin Butler, M., 19, Belvedere Place, Dublin Byrne, Rev. Wm., S.T.L., St. John's College, Waterford

Carberry, Thos., Johnstown, CarrickeondSuir. Carroll, W. H., Manager Munster & Leinster Bank, Waterford Carrigan, Rev. W . , P.P., D.D., M.R.I.A., Durrow, Queen's Co. CastIetown, Lord, of Upper Ossory, D.L., F.R ,S. A., Abbeyleix Catholic Young Men's Society, Waterford Chavasse, Major, J.P., Whitfield Court, Waterford Cochrane, Robert, M.I.C.E., LL.D., M.R.I.A., 17, Highfield Road, Dublin Cotton, Miss, Hill Cottage, Lismore Crotty, Rev. M. C., John's Hill, Waterford Cummins, Rev. John, C.C., Killrossenty Cummins, Jeoffrey, Kill, KilmaCthomas , . Curtis, Miss, c/o Mrs. Kinghorn, Ardoch, ~renion, , Birkenhead. %

Day, Robert, F:R.S.A., M.R.I.A., Myrtle Hill House, Cork Denny, C. E., J.P., Ballybrado, Cahir Dobbyn, William A., Clerk of Crown & Peace, Newtown, Waterf0r.d . Dunford, Daniel, Solicitor, Catherine Street, Waterford Dungarvan Club, Secretary of, Dungarvan Dunphy, Rev. P., P.P., Cappoquin Dix, E. R. McClintock, M.R.I.A., 17, Kildare. Street, Dublin

Everard, Rev. J., P.P,, Clogheen, Cahir.

FitzGerald, Lord Walter, J.P., . M.R.I.A., ' F.R.S.A., Kilkea Castle, Maganey, Co. Kildare

Fitzgerald, Dr. A., District Lunatic Asylum, Waterford Fitz-Gerald, Henry A., South Abbey, Youghal Fleming, Very Rev. Canon W., St. Mary's, Moorfields, London

MEMBERS O F THE SOCIETY.-Continued. v.

Flynn, Rt. Rev. Monsignor, Dean, P.P., V.F., St. Anne's Presbytery, Waterford Forde, H. J., J.P., Manor of St. John's, do. Ford, Dr. A,, Catherine Street, do. Forsayeth, Lt.Xolonel, Whitechurch House, Cappagh, Co. Waterford Foster, R., 55, Q a y , Waterford Furlong, Rev. T. F., Adm., Presbytery, George's Street, Waterford

Gallwey, Wm., J.P., D.L., Rockfield, Tramore Gardiner, T. G., Manager, Munster and Leinster Bank, Dungarvan Goff, Sir W. G. D,, Bt., D.L., J.P., Glenville, Waterford Griffith, P. J. E., York House, 13, York Road, Rathrnines, Dublin. ,

Ha:kett, Very Rev. Dean, M,A,, B.D., The Deanery, Waterford Harnmond, J. R., The Mall, Waterford Handcock, Gustavus Frederick, 5 Hazlewell Road, Putney, London, S.W. Healy, Rev. W . , P.P., F.R.S.A., Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny Healy, Rev. P. J., D.D., Catholic University of America, Washington,,D.C. Higgins, Patrick, J.P., Asst. Town Clerk, Waterford

Jennings, I. R. B., J.P., 70, Eccles Street, Dublin

Keane, H. D., Solicitor, John's Hill, Waterford Kelleher, Rev. John, S.T.L., St, John's College, Waterford Kelly, Right Rev. Dr., Archbishop of Sydney, St. Benedict s Catholic Church, Kelly, E. Walshe, ParnelI Street, Waterford , [Sydney, N.S. W Kelly, Gerald H., Gladstone Street, do.

Librarian, Free Library, Waterford Librarian, do. Cape1 Street, DubIin Librarian, do. Thomas St., do Librarian, do. CharIevilIe MaII, Dublin Librarian, do. Lower Kevin St,, do. ,

Libtarian, Kings Inns' Library, Henrietta Street, Dublin Librarian, National Library of Ireland, Kildare St., Dublin Librarian, Trinity College, Dublin Librarian University College, Dublin Lynch, P. J., C. E., M.R.I.A., Sandy Cove Avenue, Kingstown

MacaIister, R. A. Stewart, M,A,, F.S.A., Newlands, Clonoheagh, Co. DubIin McCoy, A. S,, Solicitor, Leoville, Waterford McGrath, Rev. M., S.J., College of Sacred Heart, Limerick MacDonald, Very Rev, Walter, D.D., Librarian, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth Melleray, Lord Abbot of, Cappoquin Mayler, James E., Harristown, Ballymitty, Co, Wexford Mockler, Rev. Richard, P.P., Ballylooby, Cahir a

Mockler, Rev. T., St. John's College, Waterford ,

Mount St. Joseph, Lord Abbot of, Roscrea Murphy, Rev. J., C.C., Lisnore, Co. Waterford Murphy, W. J., Secretary " Nationalist," Clonmel

I f

Nelson. A., J.P., D.L., William Street, ~ a t e r f b r d

vi. MEMBERS O F T H E SOCIETY.-Continued.

O'Brien, John F., Town Clerk, Hon. Sec. Free Library, Clonmel O'Byrne, Michael, 362 West 118th Street, New York O'Da1,y Patrick, General Secretary Gaelic League, O'ConnelI St. Upper, Dublin O'Donnell, Rev. W. B., P.P., George's Street, Waterford O'Donnell, Rev. J., P.P., Ardmore, Youghal 07Donnell, Rev. P. J., Ph. D., B.D., 135, East 96th Street, New Yorlc City O'Farrell, Rev. M. C., Holy Innocents, 137/9, West 36th Street, New York City Odell, Mrs., Cloncoskraine, Dungarvan O'Hara, Right Rev. H. S., D.D., Lord Bishop of Cashel, The Palace, Waterford 07Hickey, Rev, M. P., D.D., M.R.I.A., Carrickbeg. O'Higgins, Thomas F., Abbeyside, Dungarvan . Ormond, Rev. W. , C.C., St. Mary's, Clonmei Ormond, Rev. L.. C.C., St. John's, Waterford O'NeiII, Miss Kate, 107, Warburtoh Avenue, Yonkers, New York City O'Reilly, Rev.Thomas A., O.S.F., Franciscan Convent, 4, Merchants' say, Dublin O'Sullivan, Ald., Dr. J. J., D.P.H., M.R.C.S.I., The Mall, Waterford

Phelan, James J., ~ e w t o w n , Waterford Pleysier, Miss, Sion Hill, Ferrybank, Waterford Pim, Miss E. M., Newtown Park, do. Poer, Count E. de La, H.M.L., Gurteen-Ie-Poer, Kilsheelan Poole, A. H., The Mall, Waterford Pope, P. A., F.R.S.A., 1, Priory Place, New Ross Power, P. M., D.L., Faithlegg, Waterford Power, Rev. P., M.R.I.A., Portlaw Power, Rev. Thomas, P.P., Clashmore, Youghal Power, Walter, Ballyduff N.S., Kilmeaden Power, Right Rev. Monsignor, P.P., V.G., Dungarvan Prendergast, Rev. E., C.C., Carrick-on-Suir

@inn, Fred. J., Springfield, Clonmel

Ridgway, R. G., Riverview House, Waterford Roberts, Earl, F.M., G.C.B., V.C., 47, Portland Place, London, V\I. Roberts, E. A., Gaultier Lodge, Woodstown, Waterford Russell, Edmund, 18, Montrell Road. Streatham Hill, London, S.W. Ryan, Hon. J. D. Kedra, Circular Road, St. John's, Newfoundland. Ryan. John A., C.E., J.P., 33 Catherine Street, Waterford

- Science and Art Department-(J. J. BuckIey,) Kildare Street, Dublin ' Sheehan, Most Rev. R. A., D.D., F.R.S,A.. Lord Bishop of Waterford,

Bishop's House, Waterford Shelly, Daniel, Manor Street, Waterford SherIock, Major E. T., 36,, Nightingale Lane, London, S.W. Sheridan, Rev. N. T., Ramsgrange, Campile, Waterford Sisters of Mercy, Portlaw Skeffington. T. B., LL.D., 1 I, Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin Slattery, Very Rev. P. A., O.F.M., Clonmel Stevens, B. F., & Brown, 4, Trafalgar Square, London W.C .

.St. Munna's Temperance Club, Portlaw

Talbot, Rev. J., Clonbeg Rectory, near Tipperary Thompson, Joseph, Summerland, Waterford Tucker, James A,, Manager National Bank, Waterford

MEMBERS O F T H E SOCIETY -Continued. vii.

Upton; Henry G. S.. M.R.I.A., Coolatore, Moate. Ussher, R. J., D.L., M.R.1.A.-, Cappagh House, Cappagh S.O., Co. Waterford Ursoline Convent, Waterford

Walsh, Rev, M. F., C.C., Trinity Without, Waterford Walsh, Rev. James, Manor Hill, Waterford Walsh, Rev. M., C.C. Dungarvan Walsh, Rev. D. F., C.C., Tramore, Walsh, Rev. J., P.P., Ballymacarbery, Clonmel Waters; Dr. G. A,, Fleet Surgeon R.N., Tramore Whelan, Miss, CorkickIe, Whitehaven, Cumberland White, Colonel J. Grove, J.P., D.L., RockfieId, Cappagh S.O., Co. Waterford White, Wm. James Grove (Crown Solr. for Kildare), 1 a,, Elgin Road, Dublm White, J. N., M.R.I.A., J.P., Rocklands, Waterford White, Dr. J. T., Broad Street, do. White, Edgar, Coolegrean, Newtown, do, Williams, Rev. James, O.S.A., Fethard, Go. Tipperary Windle, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan, M.A., M,D, F.R.S., F.S.A., Gc., President

Qeen ' s College, Cork Wyse, A. N. Bonaparte, M.A., Herbert Lodge,' Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin Wyman & Sons, Ltd., Fetter Lane, London, E.C.

HONORARY MEMBER.

Hogan, Rev. Edmund, S.J., F.R.U.I., LL.D., M.R.I.A., University College, Dublin

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION 10,'2, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

RULES.

I.---That the Society be called THE WATERFORD AND SOUTH-EAST OF IRELAND ARCHBOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

2.-That the purpose of the Society be the pronlotion of the study of matters having an antiquarian interest relating to Waterford and the South

.Eastern Counties.

3.-That Ladies shall be eligible for membership. .

4.-That the Annual Subscription shall be Ten Shillings, payable on the first of January in each year, and that a payment of L5 shall constitute a Life Member.

5.-That the Society be managed by a President, four Vice- Presidents, and one Vice-President, from each County taking part in the proceedings of the Society, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, and a Committee of nine Members, any three of whom shall form a quorum.

6.-That an Annual General Meeting, for the purpose of electing the Office and Committee, shall be held before the end of February in each year,

and that such election shall be by ballot.

7.-That at the Annual General Meeting in each year the Committee shall submit a brief report and statement of the Treasurer's Accounts.

S.-That a Journal be published containing accounts of the proceedings, and columns for local Notes and Queries.

9.-That all papers, Bc., intended for publication in the Journal shall be subject to the approval of the Committee.

10.-That the date of the Society's Meetings, which may be convened for the reading and discussion of papers and the exhibition of objects of antiquarian interest, shall be fixed by the Committee, due notice being

given to each member.

11.-That all matters touching on existing religious and political differences shall be rigorously excluded from the discussions at the meetings and from

the columns of the Jo~zrnal.

12.-That each Member shall be at liberty to introduce two visitors at the meetings of the Society.

13,-That the foregoing Rules can be altered only at the Annual General Meeting, or at a Special Meeting convened for that purpose.

(See $age 42.)

N E W GENEVA:

TO ITS FOUNDATION. (Continued.) I

i By MATTHEW BUT

. . I

SIR, As Mr. Cuff may not be return'd from England I think it

proper to enclose you two letters I receiv'd this morning from Maj" Ferries .that may be of use a t the next.meeting of the Com- missioners in Dublin.

The positive site of New Geneva not being fix'd I thought it unnecessary to call the Comrniss~" together not having any business to lay before them.

If in the Interim a single opinion may be hizarded-~~j ' Ferrier seems to me to have made a very judicious choice and I should hope the Lands necessary might be obtained at no very great Expence, and without destroying many people-two objects I am persuaded much in the contemplation of the commission.

I have the honour to be, Sir, Yr most obedt and ECble Servt

ALEX. ALCOCK,

Hen. Geo. Quin, Esq. WATERFORD, 31st Jan. 1784.

B

WATERFOKD, 10th Feb., 1784.

SIR, I have the Honour to enclose you the transactions of the

Board this day as taken down by Mr. Allen whose accuracy I can depend upon and from whom I obtained a copy of the commission which ascertained the number necessary to constitute a . Board.

The Terms we have made with the Tenants ?re the best that could be made and I should hope will be ratified in Dublin.

Possession may be obtained on payment of the money and Maj' Ferrjer may proceed on his work.

I have the honor to be, sir, Your obedt and Humble Servt

ALEX. ALCOCK. Hen. Geo. Quin, Esq.,

&c., &c., kc.

The Transactions referred to in' the foregoing letter are as follows :-

A meeting of the Genevan Commissioners at waterford on ,Tuesday the 10th February, 1784.

James Moore, Esqr Mayor for the time. being, in the chair. Present

. . James Grenus Esq. Josa Paul Esq; . Alexander Alcock Esq. John Allen ,,

Major James Ferrier A letter from, Hen. Geo. @in, Esqr Secretary to the Genevan

Commissioners dated the 6th inst. to Alexander Alcock, Esqr and also the Resolutions of the Comn~issioners of the 6th inst. a t the Council Chamber in Dublin, directing the Commissioners in Water- ford to meet for the purpose of obtaining a valuation of the Portion of Land at Newtown according to the Survey of Major Ferrier, to prepare agreement's with the present Possessors to appoint a day for the surrender of the Land and to report the same to the commission with as much despatch as possible, be:ing read.

The Commissioners accordingly proceeded with said business and , have entered into the following . agreements . subject to the

approbation of the Board in Dublin and the several undertenants will give up the possession of the said Lands at Twenty four hours notice, the money being paid to them agreeable to the following return, viz- :- James Morris, Newtown

Quarter .... ... . 84 acres, sells his interest for £76 15 0 John Toole, Part of Do. 47 1 29 Do. 42 18 1 Morris Foare and Robert

Pottle about .... 16 0 0 Do. 30 0 0 John and Edward Fling

with liberty to take off the inaterials of the cabbins .... .... 5 0 0 Do. 25 0 0

Maurice Hayes with Do. liberty, stones excepted 4 0 0 Do. 25. 0 0

Thomas Power and William Sheehan .... 2 2 26 Do. 16 . 0 0'

James Griffin .... .... 10 0 0 Do. 30 0 0

169 0 15 $245 13 1 N.R.-Such of the Tennants as it may be found necessary

to remove immediately are by agreement to be exempted from the half years Rent payable on the 12th Day of.May next as the Crops now in the ground are to be given up with the Land. .

The Comnlissioners request the Board in Dublin will take the above into consideration with all convenient speed as the present Tennants must endeavour to get ~abitat ions previous to the 25th of March next.

Signed by Order, JAMES MOORE, Mayor.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, Feby, 16th) 1784.

SIR, I am commanded by the Genevan Coinmissioners to acquaint

you that the undertenants of the Lands of Newtown East and West Quarters in the County Waterford are disposed to resign to

the Comn~issioners, for the sums herein stated their interest in their Leases, and to request you will give directions to the Crown Solicitor to prepare a Draught 01 the Assignment agreeably to the enclosed schedule.

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant,

H. G. QUIN. Sacltville Hamilton, Esq.

DUBLIN CASTLE, I

21st February, 1784. MY LORD,

I have the Lord Lieutenant's commands to acqtzaint your Lordship That His Excellency has no objection to the Genevan Com~issioners Lodging from Time to Time in the Hands of Messrs Hayden & Rivers, Bankers at Waterford, such sums of money as the Commissioners may think requisite to be deposited in that city for the supplying the necessary Disbursements incident to the establishment of the Genevan Emigrants.

I have the Honor to be My Lord

Your Lordships Most Obedient

Humble Servant Earl of Tyrone. S . HAMILTON.

W A T ~ Swuday Even., 229zd Feb., 1784. SIR,

On receipt of your Letter yesterday I sent to our Agent in Passage to furnish me with as much Expedition as possible the papers required by the Crown Solicitor.

He has just sent me six counter-parts and a letter which I hope will answer the Solicitors purpose and which I request you will hand over to him.

I think i t proper to inclose you a Letter directed to myself in which is mentd a desire of Maj' Ferrier that 4 acr. 2 rds,-19 per.

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more be added as being of importance in' the execution of the work whichb yoti will please to lay before the Commissrs a t their next meeting.

I have the Honor to be, Sir, Yr most obedt Humble Servt

ALEX. ALCOCK. H. Geo. Quin, Esq.

PASSAGE, SR 22nd Feb., 84.

Agreeable to your request I send the counterparts of the Tenants leases (who hold the lands of Newtown, part Rawheen, &c.) which I luckily met with in looking over some papers that Counclr Alcock gave me to Examine. I also send you a coppy of a proposal from Garret Meade to Counelr Alcock upon which said Meade had been promised a lease for the term mentioned in said proposal (Note-Jams Morris is now the representative of Garret Meade) I have already shown the Right ~ o n b l ~ Mr. Cuffe one of these proposals and told him of the promises made by Counel' Alcock to the Tenants which promises are their title to the Lands, a few leases and scroles only excepted, you will also take notice that Foar and Pottle hath 85 ac. 2 rds. 29 per. of the lands of Rawheen, sixteen acres of which or thereabout are within the line mark'd out for the new Geneva, also some few Acres of part Crook which I hold, neither of them has been as yet survey'd, therefore their number of acres cannot as yet be ascertained, but will as soon as possible as Major Ferrier has sent for a surveyor for that purpose. You'l also please to acquaint the Comrnissrs that there are four acres two roods and seventeen perches of the lands of Rawheen held by TW" Hearn who was unwell and not able to attend the conimission held at Waterford and whose lot is within the line struck out for the new Geneva and which Major Ferrier desires you'l acquaint them must be purchas'd, which purchase according 'to the Rest will be Twenty pounds or thereabout.

Major Ferrier desires his CompS to you and. I am

Sr Your Most Obedient Humble Servt 'JAMS GRIFFIN.

Alexdr Alcock, Esq., I . r

Waterford.

FeE. 25th, 1784. An Acc' of the sums advanced by the vice Treasurer on acct

.of the Genevan Establishment. 1783 June 4th-Right ~ o n b " J2 Cuff .... £2000 0 0 Nov. 12th-Simon Newport and James

Moore .... .... .... 150 0 0 Sir JaS May (g) to reimburse

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* him the like sum he paid .... to JaS Moore, Esq. 150 0 0 .... 19 More to Ditto .... 200 0 0

1784 .... Jan. 21-More to Ditto .... .... 200 0 0 .... 25-More to Ditto .... .... 400 0 0 .... Feb. 25-More to Ditto .... .... 100 0 0 1200 0 0

E3200 0 0 This account does not say to whom the last four sums were

issued, nor is it signed. N.B.-The acct has been since altered (h).

DUBLIN CASTLE, 27th Feby., 1784.

LORDS AND GENTI-EMEN, I am commanded by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you

that his Grace has received a letter from Lord Sydney, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, dated the 22nd instant, signifying His Majesty's Royal Pleasure that all expedition may be used in bringing forward every measure necessary to be taken for carrying to Execution the Plans approved of by His Majesty for establish-. ing the Genevan Emigrants in this Kingdom agreeably to the benevolent Design of His Majesty, and of the Parliament of Ireland.

The King's Law Servants here have have been acquainted with his Majesty's desire relative to such parts of the Business as lie before them.

(g) One of the M.P,'s for Co. Waterford. (h) These two remarks are written by two differelit people, and both are

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different from the writing in the account.

His Grace relies upon your taking the other parts of thii. Business into your immediate consideration, among which is the Plan proposed for establishing an Academy in the intended new. Town (i), which establishment from the many men of, Erninen2 in the different Branches of learning cultivated with success a t Geneva, cannot fail of producing a considerable improvemen4 upon the Education of. any country in which they may settle; and his Grace has no doubt that you will use your utmost endeavors to have it forwarded to its collclusion \vith every possible expedi; tion.

His Grace has also commanded me to acquaint you that' His Majesty has been gracio~~sly pleased to direct the Lords of the Admiralty to order a proper ship to be sent for the Reception' of the Emigrants who are ready to embark for this Kingdom and the vessel is to be appropriated to that service for the future.

I have the Honor to be My Lords and Gentlemen

Your most obedient Humble Servant 1

THOs ORDE, Comnlissioners for settling in Ireland

a Colony of Emigrants from Geneva.

No. 19, JERVIS STREET, DUBLIN.

Entre les divers objets dont les Commissaires Genevois s'occupirent avec Son Excellence My lord Temple pour 1'6t&Iisse- ment de leurs compatriotes en Irlande, l'un des principaux fut un pr& de cent mille livres sterlings qui auroit CtC destine par le Gouvernement A arracher presque tout A coup de Geneve une partie considerable de la manufacture d'horlogerie et de bijouterie et A l'aider A sa transplantation dans ce pais My lord Temple ne nous dissimula point qu'il sentoit le been qui powvioit en resulter, mais

(i) This idea originated with Earl Temple, the Lord Lieutenant, but he dreaded the effects of the proposal on the authorities of Trinity College.

les circonstanses ne lui ayant pas permis de conseiller A I'Irlande de se porter A une telle avance pour un 6tablissement qui n'existoit encore qu'en projet, les Commissaires Genevois furent obligks de laisser your lors tomber cette demande.

Les avantages que le Gouvernement leur avoit promis dks l'entrke le la hegociation avoient dej a inclin6s les Genevois 6migrans A prkferer l'hlande aux divers autres Etats dans lesquels ils etoient appellks Les Plans dressks en cons6quence par la commission que my lord Temple avoit dkcern6c et les mesures qu'il prit avant son d6part de 1'Irlande pour leur promte et enti6re exCcution, ayant rempli les soussign6s de la plus flateuse esperance, ils la communi- querent bientbt B leurs concitoyens et invitkrent en particulier ceux d'entr 'eux qui 6toient interess6s dans le commerce d'horlogerie A s'assurer d&s ce moment de tous les fonds dont ils auroient besoin pour ktablis et alimenter la fabrique.

Ces invitations eurent leur effet et au milieu de la satisfaction qu'inspiroit l'avenir ie se forma entre les Generois dispos6s Q dmigrer un Projet de societ6 par actions pour le commerce d'horlogerie et de bijouterie sur un fonds de trente mille livres s terlings.

Ce projet 6toit d6ja muni d'un grand nombre cle signatures d&s le lOeme Octobre dernier et l'ernpressement B s'y interesser &oit tel que sans les lenteurs fatales et impr6viies que nous avons rencontreks du cbt6 de I'Irlande il n'y a pas de doute qu'il n'eut eu son plein accomplissement.

Une premi6re bande d'ouvriers que les Commissaires Genevois avoient demand6e par les conseils de plusieurs personnes respectable~, s'ktoit rendue en Irlande dans 11esp6rance d'y trouver en airivant les premiers biitimens de la nouvello ville assez avanchs, kt que leurs compatriot6s dont la promte jonction 6toit absolument B~cessaire A leur succks ne serount pas obliges de differer leur ikpart au delB de Printems survant.

Cette esperance a 6th ddque, B leur arriv6e ils ont eu le chagrin ne voir meme aucuns prhparatifs, et pendant leur s6jour ils n'ont p6 se faire aucune id6e fixe du mement ou I'ktablissement qu'ils croyoient commence prendroit naissance. Quelques uns d'entr'eux

au noinbre de treize apr6s avoir inutilement lutt6 contre la douleur ou la crainte d'une ruine totalc ont pris le parti de retourner dons le Continent.

Indt5pcndamment de la dktresse oh leur depart a jett6 ceux qui restent, les soussignks avoient les plus grandes inquiktudes sur le dkcouragement que cette nouvelle pourroit expirer aux Genevois dispos6s A 1'6migration mais ils ont 'appris que ce d6part a kt6 universellement bEm6 B Genkve, comme trop pr6cipit6, que les esprits n'en sont pas moins inclin6s vers llIrlande, et que plusieurs farnilles n'attendoient pour s'y rendre que l'entikrk r6alisation de ce que les Commissaires Genevois ont annonck depuis si longtems.

Le seue effet vraiment fkheux qui soit r6sult6 tant de ce retour que des r6tards qui eu ont 6tk ea cause a 6t6 de jetter une telle allarme parrni les personnes qui avoient proinis des fonds pour la nouvelle compagnie d'horlogerie qu'il n'y a dans ce moment aucune espbrance de pouvoir la former aussitbt que le bien des choses l'exigeroit.

Cependant la situation des Genevois denl+m5s & waterford- exige qu'il soit pris des mesures 6galement efficaces et promtes pour les entretenir d'ouvrage. I1 faut pour cet effet faire incessa- mment venir d'autres ouvriers qui travaillent collateraleinent avec eux. La prudence ne permet pas de l'entreprendre, sans avoir auparavant pourvu Q ni les uns ni les autres ne manquent d'occupa- tions. E t c'est ce qui ne se peut sans former une sociltk de commerce, avec des fonds sufisaizs pour ea direction l'achat et le d6bit de tous leurs ouvrages.

Dans une telle circonstance les Coinmissaires Genevois en- visagent conline un grand honheur d'avoir en ce moment en Irlande trois des Genevois qui devoiht g6rer la grande societk dont on a pal-16. Quoique ces Messieurs ne puissent pas avec leurs seules ressources entreprendre la direction de cette manufacture, les lumi6res l'experience qu'ils ont eu ce genre les mettent dans le cas de juger mieux que persome des inoyens de la faire prospkrer 11s l'en sont occupbs avec tout le Ale et lJim.telligence Rue les Com- missaires Genevois pouvoient desirer et d'aprks les suppututions

les plus exactes, ils ont trouvk que l'on ne pouvoit entretenir en plein travail les ouvriers nkcessaires & la formation et au soutien de la fabrique sans un fonds de 15,000 livres sterlings.

Quant 2 eux ne pouvant liquider promptement ce qu'ils posskdent & Genkne tant en biens fonds que pour le restant de leurs preckdkntes affaires, les fonds qu'ils peuvent employer A cette entreprise soit par eux-m6mes soit par deux nkgocians de . leurs amis qui se trouvent dans le meme cas, se rkduisent pour le pr6sent & 5,000 livres sterlings ; et etete somme, ils offrent de l'employer dans l'espace d'une annke dks le l e r 8bre prochain & l'ktablissement de la manufacture en Irlande, pourvi~ qu'on leur assure & certaines kpoques fixes un secours de 10,000 livres sterlings.

La nature des raisons qui.ont mis obstacle & la grande societk dont on a parlk et la necessitk absolue d'une promte dkcision ne permettent pas aux Commissaires soussign& de tenter la voie lente et incertaine des individus, ils se voyent obligks de s'addresser au Gouvernement pour cet objet. Mais en m6me terns pour lever autant qu'il est en eux toutes les objections qui pourroient retarder une conclusion aussi. dksirable, ils viennent tres humblement proposer un moyen de rempir ce but sans aucuno nouvelle d6pense.

Ce moyen consisteroit & changer ea destination d'une partie de la somine que la Commission devoit employer au dkfrayement

, des fraix de voyage des mille premiers kmigrans, et de l'appliquer & fournir & la societi: que se formeroit pour diriger la nouvelle manufacture le supplement de fonds dont lle a besoin.

Pour rendre cette idke sensible, les commissaires vont entrer dans quelques dktails sur la manikre dont ils estiment qu'elle pourroit s'executer ; apres quoi ils termineront ce mkmoire par une exposition succinte des avantages qui leur parvissent devoir en r6sulter.

Les trois nkgociants horlogers dont on a par16 s'engagent 2 former immediatement avec deux de leurs amis qui sent en Suisse, et que la prudence ne permet pas d'indiquer encore, mais qui sont bien connus des Commissaires Genevois, une Societk de Com- merce pour le term de huit annkes & commencer le l e r Octobre

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prochain ; dans laquelle ils verseront entr'eux cinq la somme de 5,000 livres sterlings en quatre payemens egaux, s~avoirle premier audit jour l e r 8b re et les autres cle trois en trois mois jusqu'au dernier Septembre de l'annke prochaine.

Tls prendront dks & prksent la direction du commencement de fabrique que se trouve & Waterford, en occuperont les ouvriers autant qu'il sera eu elur pouvoir et pouvoir ont incessament et successivement & faire venir un nombre s~~ffisant d'autres ouvriers pour se joindre & eux entant qtt'il leur sera fourni des logemens non meubles pour eux et leurs familles jusqua ce que les maisons de la nouvelle Genkve soient consti-uites et en ktat d'etre habitkes sans aucun risque pour la sant6.

De son c6te le Gouvernement mettroit dks & present & la disposition de la susditte societ6, dans la Banque de Dublin la somme de 10,000 livres sterlings, laquelle devroit porter interet en faveur de la societk. La societk ne polnrroit cependant toucher cette sonime qu'en trois parties et Q termes kgaux savoir un tkers au 1% Janvier, 1785, un autre tiers au 15e Juillet suivant et un autre tiers au 15e Janvier, 1786, ou plus tard si elle le juge plus convenable. E t avant que d'en toucher aucune partie, elle devroit prouver d'une manikre satisfaisante pour la commission, que chacuni de ses members auroit bien vers6 & cette kpoque les fonds qu'il se seroit engagk B y mettre, et qu'il y auroit recllement dans la eolonie asser d'ouvriers pour employer les nouveaux fonds qu'ils demanderoient ,

La societk payeroit annuellement A la Commission l'interet de prkt ci dessus ;2 raison de 4 pour cent sous la condition de l'employer sur le champ & augmenter le nombre des maisons de la ville.

Au commencement de la sixikme ann6e de la societ6, un sixikme de la somme capitale ci-dessus seroit remboursek B la commission, une autre sixikme six mois aprks et ainsi de auite de six en six mois jusqua l'entikre extinction du capital et des intkrkts ; & moins qu'il ne convint la Societ6 de faire ce rembours plus promptement : E t toutes ces sommes servient successivement appliqukes par la comniission & construire de nouveaux b2timens dans la ville.

Pour donner au Gouvernement toutes les suretks possibles de

la r6qularit6 et de 1'6conomie dans l'administration des affaires de la societ6, chaque associ6 s'engageroit & ne lever annuellement pour ses besoins personnels et ceux de sa famille que cent vingt livres sterlings, sous quelque pretexte que ce soit, y compris meme l'interet de leurs comptes de fonds. E t & la reserve de cette lev6e annuelle tous les benefices que pourroit faire la societ6 demeureroient ainsi que les fonds des associ6s dans la masse de la societ6, jusqu'au au plein et entier remboursement de la susditte soinme de 10,000 livres sterli ngs.

Les associ6s s'engageroient de plus B niettre chaque annke sous les yeux de son Excellence le Lord Lieutenant un Inventaire et un bilan de leur situation, & communiquer en tout tems l'ktat de leurs affaires et m2me leurs livres & telle personne que son Ex- cellence dkputeroit A cet effet, et 2 liquider leur commerce, & l'effet de pourvoir au rembours des susdittes 10,000 livres, du moment que par l'examen de leurs affaires il paroitroit que la mise en fonds des associ6s n'existeroit plus.

Ce changement dans l'application d'une partie de la somme destinke aux fraix de voygage devant naturellem apporter une r6duction considerable dans ce qu'on avoit d'abord pens6 de payer par tete & chaqt~e emigrant, nous nous sommes occup6s de ce qu'il y auroit a faire B cet 6gard ; et aprks avoir consider6 la facilitk qu'auront les emigrans B l'avenir de passer par la France ellsuite de la parole que monsieur Le Cointe de Vergeniies en a dom6 B My lord Duc de Dorset, la promesse que les Ministres du Roy ont faite de destiner un Paatiment de sa Majest6 pour le trailsport de mer jusqu'& Waterofrd, 1'6conomie materielle et la facilit6 qui r6sultent de ces deux circonstances pour 6viter les s6jours qui ont si fort aggrav6 la d6pense des premiers emigrans, nous estinions qu'B l'avenir il suffira d'allouer 13 livres sterlings par tete pour le transport de chaque &migrant 2g6 de plus de 10 ans et de 9 livres pour celui de chaque infant au dessous de cetiige, ce qui feroit nne 6conomic plus forte forte que la somme que nous demandons.

Quoique des arrangemens 'qui ont pour biit d'assurer aux Einigrans les inoyens d'exercer utilement leur industrie sount un motif de plus pour dkterminer 1'6migration en Irlande cependant

pour faire participer les ouvriers kmigrans d'une manikre plus directe aux avantages rksultans de l'avance faite au commerce et les interesser & ses succks, il seroit pr4lev6 & la fin de la societi! en faveur de la masse des dits ouvriers un 10 pour cent des benefices nets du commerce sous la dkduction des fraix et charges de la societk, pour &re rkparti entr'eux dans la proportion et de la manikre qui seroit fixee par le contract de societk.

Dans notre opinion et dans celle des nkgocians Genevois q u ~ nous avons. consuetks, les arrangemens ci-dessus prksentent auq emigrans l'appas le plus propre & les dkterminer, celui dont ils doivent ktre et dont ils sont en effet le plus jaloux ; la certitude de pouvoir travailler de leurs differentes branches dks leur arriv6e et de recuillir les fruits de leur industrie ; objet si capital pour toute manufacture, que sans h i , quelques fussent d'ailleurs leS avantages qu'on offreroit & ceux qui y sont employks, on ne pourroit pas se flatter de I'ktatlir solidement dans aucun pa'is.

Cette consideration rkpond d'avahce & l'objection qu'on pourroit tirer contre ces arrangemens, de la crainte qu'ils ne diminuassent le nombre des emigrans, car de tous les emigrans estimables et dont le concours peut Gtre vraiment utile A. la nouvelle Colonie, il n'en est pas un qui ne doive Gtre satisfait d'un arrangement qui, quoiqu'il diminue le rembours de ses fraix de voyage aura l'effet de lui assurer de l'ouvrage dans la Colonie.

I1 f a ~ ~ t d'ailleurs considkrer que cet arrangement mettra les negocians & meme de faire pour le commencement, entre les personnes qui se disposent & kmigrer un choix de celles qui seront le plus assorties & leur genre d'ktablissement, le plus distingukes par leur industrke et leur caractkre moral ; ce qui kloignant dks l'entr6e les personnes qui pourroient nuire A. l'entreprise ou liu Gtre A. charge tournera par cela mGme au v6iitable bien de la Colonie.

Si cette proposition a des avantages cjvidens pour la Colonie Genevoise, elle n'en prksente pas,de moins grands au Gouvernment, par la circonspection qui en rksulte dans l'emploi de la somme destinke & son etablissement.

On en sera convaincu en cornparant les effets de ce nouveaq plan arec ceux de l'ancien.

Dans l'ancien plan la soinme destinke dans le principe aux fraix de voyage est repartie et consumke au moment mgme de l'arriv6e des Emigrans dans le pais : Dans le nouveau il en reste une portion considerable en rkserve et qui n%ntre en circulation que lorsque la necessitk en est dkmontrke.

Dans l'ancien cette somme passe presque toute dans lY6tranger sans autre bien iminediat pour le pak que celui de lui ammener de noureaux citoyens.

Dans le nouveau il n'en soit que ce qui est absolument nkcessaire et le reste est employ6 de la mani6re la plus fkonde en solides et utiles effets. I1 pourvoit successivement A soutenir le commerce et B y verser peut etre d6 nouveaux fonds en ranimant ea canfiance des capitalistes Genevois ; il pourvoit ausse B attirer de nouveaux colons et A les loger ; et il fixe du m6me coup en Irlande la fabrique et les ouvriers.

Nous venons d'indiquer les suretks qui r6sultent pour le Gouvernement de la nature des choses et les conditions auxquelles seroient astreints les n6gocians dont il est question he reste nous sembleroit devoir &re abandonnk au caractere moral, A l'integritk, aux principes d'donneur et B l'intelligence bien connues de ces messieurs.

Tous sont des pkres de famille aim&, estim6s dans leur Patrie, particulierement consider& des ouvriers quail sera le plus B propos d'attirer . Ce cont des nkgocians entendus dam ce genre de com- .

merce, prudens par caractere et par exp6rience) et la somme qu'ils s'engagent & y verser et qui forme dans ce moment tout ce qu'ils ont de bien dont ils puissent disposer est pour eux d'une telle importance qu'indbpendamment de la responsabilit6 personelle de chacum d'eux pour la somme totale qui leur sera confikc, on peut compter de leur part sur la pl& scrupuleuse attention dans le maniement des affaires et en gen6ral dans tout ce qui pourra tendre au bien de l'entreprise qu'ils sont sur le point de former.

Nous nous bornons B dhelopper ici les considkration les plus capitales, bien persuadks que les autres n'&happeroizt ,pas aux lumikres et 2 la sagacitk de ceux qui daigneront honorer ce m6moire de leur attention.

Nous osons nous flatter que les avantages qui derivent de .cette proposition lie les frapperont pas moils vivement que nousj et' que si ils daignent en bien examiner la nature, ils trouveront q~l'elle revient ?L peu prhs au m2me que si l'on autorisoit les individus B qui l'on devoit par le premier plan rembourser'les fraix de voyage % en consacrer d'avance une partie au soutien du commerce qui va devenir la racine de leur subsistance et de l e ~ n prosp6rit6 dans leur nouvelle patrie.

En un mot il ne s'agit ici ni dJunpr6t considhable ni surtout d'un nouveau sacrifice de la part de I'Irlande, mais uniquement d'appliquer i un nouvel usage et A un usage permanent une partie de la somine promise et qui devoit .se disperser ou se consommer

. cl'abord. Et come le pret ne sera entierement fini que lorsqu'il y aura

assey d'ouvriers pour fabriquer pour environ 10,000 livres sterlings de montres par annhe, it suit encore de 18 que la confiance du %ouvernemen.t marchera eollateralement avex les progrits de J'emigration.

J. A. DU .ROVERAY, F. D. IVERNOIR.

In dorso Recd 26th Mar., 1784. ( j )

[For those who do fiot rend Fvetzch, the Editor begs to nppend a n epitomized translation of the above d o c u m e d ]

1MEMORIAL. ( j ) Among the subjects discussed by the Genevese delegates with Lord

Temple, the principal was a loan of L100,OOO for the transference to Ireland of a considerable part of the watch and jewel manufacture of Geneva. Lord Temple declared that the circumstances would not justify him inbaclvis- ing such an advance for a project yet only in contemnplation.

The terms which a t beginning of the negotiations the Government had offered inclined the Genevese towards Ireland rather than to the other countries whither they had been invited, and the plans drawn up by Lord Temple's commission, no less than the measures taken for their execution, had filled the interested parties with high hopes. The terms were a t once communicated to the craftsmen in Geneva, and those of the latter disposed to avail of them and to emigrate to Ireland formed themselves a t once into a company to undertake clock and watch making in Ireland, and subscribed &30,000. By the 1st of October last the share list had been well subscribed and but for the fatal dilatoriness af the Irish executive the project would have reached success by now.

A number of the craftsmen-the advance guard of the colony-had actually arrived in Ireland hoping to find the new city far advanced in erection for it was essential to the scheme that formal establishment of the colony should not be delayed beyond the following (this present) spring. On

arriving however in Ireland the Genevese were sadly disappointed to find that building had not yet commenced, and, worse still, during their stay they found it impossible to discover when operations would begin. Thirteen of the party returned in disgust to Geneva; the others were dismayed a t the defection of their brethren and the probable effect of their return on the fortunes of the association. Strange to tell, however, the return of the fainthearted did nowise discourage the body of intending emigrants, but the delay has naturally caused the Association scheme to languish and die out.

Meantime the remaining Genevese in Waterford find themselves in sore plight through lack of employment. Employment, owing to nature of their trade, they can effectively obtain only through the agency of an Association or Company financing the industry. I t is now suggested by the subscribers that the Government undertake the financing in question on co-operative company lines, committing direction of the new Association to three Genevese gentlemen of proved competence, zeal, and intelligence, who happen to be a t present in Ireland. The three gentlemen in question have not themselves enough means to completely finance the project but with two friends they are willing to find k5,000 @ 100%. The total sum required will be k15,000 and the balance, fT10,000, they ask from the Govern- ment on the following terms :

Let portion of the sum destined for the New Geneva project be diverted thus to supplement the funds of the new manufactory : the travelling expenses of the first one thousand emigrants may be considerably reduced if the travellers come through France and be conveyed direct in one of the King's ships from a French port to Waterford. By this procedure the expensive delays which took place in the case of the first comers will be avoided, so that in future f;13 per head for those over ten years and £9 per head for those under that age will be sufficient. By this economy the memorialists maintain more will be saved than they ask for. The Association is to be for a period of eight years from October 1st next. The five contributors aforesaid find the L5,000 in equal quarterly payments extending over the first year. The three directors take control of the new manufactory to be established in Waterford and a t the same time find employment for all the workmen already in Ireland, and bring over others according to the accommodation to be procured. The Government on its part is to lodge f;l0,000 in the Dublin Bank, which sum is to be drawn on, with its interest. in three half-yearly parts; the Association, on its part, is to show that its members have paid the stipulated sum and that the colony has a sufficient number of operatives. The Association will pay interest on this loan a t 4%, on condition that the amount so paid (in interest) should be used in increasing the house accommodation a t New Geneva. At beginning of the sixth year thg Association shall commence repayment of the Loan a t rate of one sixth principal plus interest, per half year, till extinction of the debt, but all the money so repaid is to be spent on New Geneva. In order to ensure economy each member of the Association engages that on no pretext shall he take more than L120 annually for his own use. All the profits and funds of the members are otherwise to remain in the company till complete repayment of the k10,000 and interest. Moreover each of the members will be bound to lay before the Lord Lieutenant his balance sheet and account books a t any time he may be called on for the same. In order, further, that the workmen may participate in the gains i t is proposed to reserve 10% of the net profits for distribution among them.

This scheme is in the opinion of the subscribers most liberal, offering securitv to the Government on the one hand and attraction to the intending emigrakts (amongst whom the promoters can choose the fittest) on the other. If this scheme be compared with the original proposals its superiority in economy and otherwise will be apparent : in the old plan the money would

have been already expended on arrival of the immigrants ; in the new scheme a considerable part remains in reserve and is not drawn on till actually required. In the old plan the money goes to foreigners, in the new i t is expended in Ireland, Bc., &c.

The memorialists haxe now to indicate the security offered by their scheme. They rely on principles of honour-the well-known integrity and intelligence of the promoters, all of them heads of families, specially appreciated by the best class of workmen, and thoroughly experienced in this trade. In fine the promoters are men of prudence and discretion, who, as a guarantee, sink their own money in the enterprise, &kc.

Memorialists have indicated only the chief advantages of the scheme ; they hope that these will not appear less real to the authorities than they do to the subsclibers themselves, and that examination of the proposals will convince the Government that under the scheme expenses will be no higher than they would be undel: the original pbn. In a word in the scheme of the subscribers there is no question of a considerable loan nor oi any new sacrifices on Ireland's part but only of method of applying funds. Moreover as the loan will not be fully drawn on till there are in the colony a sufficient number of artisans to manufacture ~10 ,000 'worth oi watches annually, i t follows $hat the security of the Government will increase with progress of the iatmigration.

(To be conf imed.)

(Continued).

Edited by REV. P. POWER. . ,

E next section of our kindly chronicler's memoirs I have labelled the ecclesiastical. Herein, and in the section devoted to politics (including events in Carrick during hapless 17%)) I think it will be more satisfactory if T allow the diarist to tell his own tale in his own words, and supplement his material by a running comment of footnotes :-

1788.-Revd. Frans. Lane, Parish Priest of Carrick, died 25th January, 1788. He was about seventy-three years of age, and about forty years Parish Priest of Carricl?; he was probably the first Irish preacher in Munster some years ago, and every way fit for the station he filled, but when he grew old and feeble he also grew peevish and closefisted, insomuch as to have almost forfeited the great respect he once commanded (a).

(a) Francis Lane was probably author ot the popular Munster song "The Lament for Kilcash," better known to Waterford folk as-CAD eed-, n~m4oi-o reArad 34n dvmua. Composition of the song, which is easily the best known Waterford ly%, has always been attributed to an ecclesiastical student named Lane (see O'Daly's "Poets and Poetry," &c.) Time, locality and circumstances of person favour identity of the future pastor of Carrick with the poet. Father Lane succeeded Rev. Patrick McCarthy, probably a Friar, as Parish Priest of Carrick in 1746, and was himself succeeded by his curate, Rev. Michael Darcy, thirty-nine years T, later. In Father Lane's time, the Bishop, Dr. Creagh, resided in Carrick ' which was apparently a safer place then for hunted prelates than Waterford ,city.

1787.--Rev. 31. Bucltley having been appointed Pai-ish Priest on the death of the Rev. Mr. Ryan, left Carrick the 7th February, .

1787, where he had been since the 10th March, 1781. He was i~iuch regretted here by all ranks of people, and at his departure left many a wet eye ! (b) .

Rev. Mr. Hearn arrived here the 15th to replace Mr. Buckley as Coadjutor to Mr. Lane, and remained here till the 1st April, and then was reinoved to Abbeyside, near Dungarvan. Rev. Mr. D'Arcy came here the 1st April, 1787, in Mr. Hearn's place of Coadjutor to Mr. Lane, and is likely to succeed Mr. Lane as Pai-ish Priest of Carrick-if not-why if not, he's an AfiriZ fool-that's all.

Rev. Mr. Smyth appointed to the Livings held by Rev. Mr. Younge (who resigned) in November or December, 1787. The cause assigned for his losing the Living is that he refused to build a Glehe House at Churchtomm and to reside in the parish.

1790.-Rev, Mr. 3/IcKenna appointed to the care of the parish of Carrick 011 Monday, 19th July, 1790, being the day the ~ e v . Mr. Dl-4rcy was buried. He was not dubbed Parish Priest (c).

1789.- Consecration :-Dr. James Lanigan was consecratkd at IGlkenny, in the room of the late Dr. Dunne; Bishopof ~ s s o ~ ~ .

(b) The diarist does not state the parish to which Father' Buckley was promoted. Mention however of Father Buckley's predecessor enables us to identify i t as Dungarvan. Father Buckley held the pastorate only eight years, when he was succeeded by Dr. Keating, translated trom St. John's, Waterford. I do not know who Rev. Mr. Hearn is ; very probably-almost certainly-he is the Rev. John Hearn whom we find, some years later, Parish .Pri&t of Tubrid where his remains await the Resurrection before the doorway of Keating's Mortuary Chapel. Rev. Michael D'Arcy did, as a matter of fact, succeed Father Lane. He held the pastorate only two years, however, dying in July, 1790.

(c) I do not quite understand the application of this sentence. It cannot: refer to Father McKenna who was Parish' Priest for seventeen years ' and built new churches a t both Carrick and Newtown in 1804, besides introducing the Christian Brothers and building a monastery for them in 1805. I take it therefore that the diarist refers to Father D'Arcy whom, he seems to insinuate, was never formally appointed to the pastorate. I t is a co-

' incidence, or more, that a Father D'Arcy (Christian name not known to me) is given as Parish Priest of the adjoining parish of Ballyneal from 1781 to 1790, when he died ; it will be observed that both Fathers Darcy are stated to have died in 1790 ; possibly they were brothers. Can they have been identical ? With the data a t hand I cannot further harmonise the statements. I add by way of Appendix to present instalment of the

Diary " an Elegy on Father D'Arcy which I have extracted from Finn's '"' Leinster Journal " for July 24th, 1790. It is curious, by the way, in the

elegiacs of the period, to observe the wholesale influence and unabashed

There were present 3 Bishops and 72 priests and the chapel so crowded that the gallery began to give warning of some danger (d).

1791.-Confirmation :--Dr. Egan was confirmiag in the chapel of Carrick the 2nd August, 1791, for the first time these 19 years ! (e).

1788.-Ordination :-Messrs. Alexander Bourke and Daniel Hearn of Carriclc were ordained Priests at Clonmel on Sunday, 27th April, 1788, by Dr. Egan. Mr. Bourke said his first Mass a t 8 o'clock on Thursday, the 19th June, 1788, at the Parish Chapel of Carricltbegg and acquitted himself very well : fhere were a good many present and I among the rest.

On Friday, the 4th July, the above gentlemen set out for Clonmel on their way to Cork to take their passage to France. God send them safe and mark them to grace ( j ) . '

Mr. Bourke returnea on Thursdav, 4th October, 1792. Mr. Hearn returned the 6th December, 1794. Messrs. Quirk, Walsh, Casey, and Sexton, and one or two

(d) Bishop James Lanigan, of Ossory, was a native of Carrick-on-Suir where his father, Stephen Lanigan, was a shopkeeper-hence our diarist's interest in him. He was appointed to the Bishopric of Ossory by Papal Brief dated, July loth, 1789, and died in the beginning of 1812. Dr. Lanigan is the author of some popular catechetical works and oi a translation of Rodriguez's "Christian Perfection," which he had published in Killcenny in three fine volumes.

(e) Dr. William Egan was appointed Coadjutor to Bishop Creagh in 1771 and succeeded the latter on Dr. Creagh's death in 1775. As Bishop Creagh lived in Carriclr-on-Suir during the whole period of his episcopate, so his successor lived in Clonmel, because, presumably, both Clonmel and Carriclc were safer places for a Bishop of the Penal Days than Waterford. Dr. Egan, dnring his episcopate, continued to act as Parish Prie'st of Clonmel.

( f ) Rev. Alexander- Burke was appointed Parish Priest of Stradbally in 1805 and survived till 1829. Rev. Daniel Hearn I am unable to trace ; I rather think however he died curate In Porilaw about 1802, during the pastorate there of Rev. Matthew Power. His name does' not occur in a list of diocesan clergy drawn 11p in 1803. Rev. Patrick Quirke became, in succession, Parish Priest of Tooraneena and of Clashmore and died 1766.

Rev. John Walsh appointed pastor oi Cappoquin in 1819 and, having held the parish for thirty years, -died in 1849.

Rev. Matthias Casey died Parish Priest of Clogheen in 1840. Rev. Peter Sexton was appointed Parish Priest of Carrigavistael (Ballyporeen) in 1810 or 1816) and resigned in 1828. He died a few years later in Tallow.

The departure of Rev. Messrs. Burke and Hearn for France immediately after ordination and their long stay abroad (four and six years respectively) may be unintelligible to.those who do not understand the circumstances of the Pend Days. Very frequently in those times the student course succeeded -instead of preceding-ordination. One of the reasons for the inversion of discipline or practicc.invdved seems to have been that the student priests might be enabled to support themselves during their periad of study abroad,

more were ordained in the month of September this year in Water- ford.

1790.-Death :-Revd. Michael D' Arcy died - at Mr. Barthw Ryan's, near Fethard (in his way to ~ a l l ~ s ~ e l l a ~ l ~ where he was going for the Benefit of his health) on Saturday morning, July 17th, 1790, he was appointed Co-adjutor to Fr. Lane, the 1st April, 1787, and after Mr. ~ a n e ' i death, which happened 25th January, 1788, he was left in charge of the parish till his death ; which he discharged with great credit to himself and satisfaction to the Flock, and consequently died imuch lamented.

1791.-Death :-Rev. Father FranS Power died on Wednesday, 23rd March, 1791. He took his death in the Pulpit on Sunday in the Beginning of his Sermon, and was obliged to beg the Indul- gence of the Congregation, which was very great. He was greatly esteemed by ,a numerous acquaintance, and consequently died much regretted ; he was indeed a very deserving, good man, His Text was-"Not by Bread alone shall Man live but by every Word which proceeds from the mouth of God " (g).

1791 .-Rev. Father O'Daniel, appointed to take the late Rev. Frans. Power's Room in the Convent (Friary) at Carrickbegg, arrived at the Convent on Monday, 9th May, 1791 (h).

1801.-Sernlon :-An Irish Sermon preached in the Main St. of Carrick by a very young Swadler, on Tuesday, the 10th March, 1801. He delivered his discourse very energetic and in~pressive ; he preached the same disco~~rse in English., ~vhikh he also delivered with tolerable force and action. He also preached (in same week) twce more. . 1793.-R&. Fr. Power appointed in the Room of the late Fr. OJDaniel*at the Convent, Carrickbegg ("The Friary") in the end of October or beginning of November, 1793 ( j ) .

Rev. Nr. O'Mara appointed P.P, of Carrickbegg on the death of Fr. Lonergan, who died the 2nd of April, 1804.-Removed

(q) Father Francis Power, a Franciscan,-was Guardian pf the Carrick- beg convent of his Order 1776-1779, 1781-178'5, and 1787-90.

(h) Rev. Thomas O'Donnell who was Guardian in Carrickbeg from 1791 to 1793.

( j ) This was in all probability, Rev,. John Power who had been Guardian in Clonmel from 1787 to 1793. HIS name does not, however, occur in the official list of Guardians of the Canickbegg convent; the list in question gives Father Anthony Fleming as Guardian from 1793 to 1831. Possibly Father Power's stay in Carsick was brief-of only a few months' duration.

Po Clonea the 9th November, 1806.-Succeeded by Rev. Mr. Rourlte (k).

Rev. Mr. [Hearn appointed Coadjutor in Mr. OJConner's place about the middle of August, 1794 (1).

1796.-June 7th. James Fennel1 mas married to Alley Furnice, grand-daughter to Alexander Vass ; the Boy was at school here and is a fine promising Boy the girl is ---- . He is about 17 or 18 years old and the Girl about 16 ! I wish them every happiness ; they ivere tied by Old Nick ! llicotar u i \ . ~ a o t ~ i n (m).

On Friday night (December 9th) the Rev. John Otway Herbert and Miss Russell fdaugr of James Russell, Esq.), eloped together and were married in Dublin by special License on the 17th Dec., 1796.

Rev. Fr. Nich. Whealan (formerly P.P. of Ballyneal) died at Carrick, 19th June, 1797, he was buried by pubiic subscription-not one Mass said for him ; for he died poor ; not as . . much as pd-i, ptuic~l-i, cou'd be expected ; therefore No Penny No Pater Noster ! (%)

Sick Poor :-On Sunday, 10th January, 1796, was preached a Charity Sermon by Rev. Mr. McKenna at which was collected 544. - There were many present of different persuasions, and most of the collectors were of the Church of Ireland. The sermon was, as it deserved, greatly liked.

1807.-The Rev. .William Power appointed parish priest of ~ai-rick on the death of the Rev. John McKenna, who died 20th August, aged 50 years that same day. Fr. Power arrived in Carrick

(k) Rev. William O'Meara died Parish Priest of Rathgormack and Mothel in 1825.

Rev. Michael Rourke was translated to Portlaw in 1813 and, having built the present church of Ballydufi, died in February, 1857.

( I ) This is probably the Rev. Daniel Hearn who was ordained in Carrick in 1798.

(m) There is a decided savour of irregularity about this marriage. We have a second reference to Rev. Nicholas Whelan under date June of the following year, from which it looks as if the clergyman in question were under censure. At this period runaway couples and such people sometimes had resource to the services of suspended or irregular priests under the impression (real or affected) that the marriage so performed was valid.

(w) This is of course the Rev. Nicholas Whelan referred to in the last note. It is quite evident something other than poverty is amiss here. His poverty could not be a reason for denial of the ordinary burial rites. Neither could he well have been in such actual poverty if he had been a voluntarily retired Parish Priest, for as such he would have had certain rights of maintenance, &c.

on Friday evening, the 18th September, ahd said first Mass the Sunday following, and announced his appointment (0).

1798.-Monday, 18th June. This morning 20 pir-isoners brought in here yesterday were escorted to Piltown by the Upper Third Cavalry, There was a priest of the name of 0'Brien.amongs.t them. Whit-Monday (28th May) an escort of yeomen went as far as Piltown with 26 United Irishmen of Co. Tipp., two of theml priests of the Catholic Communion and one of the Reformed Church ! ($1.

1794.-linyrovements :-In the year 1794 there was a new :Weeling Housc built in New Street by the sect called Swadlers or Methodists who are grown pretty numerous in Carsick of late : they are a sober, well-behaved people, and fair, honest dealers.

1797.-Death :-Rev. Mr. Younge (Dr. Younge) was buried the 25th November, 1797.

1798,-Death :-Rev. Mr. Colbert, Coadjutor to Mr. McKenaa, as buried on Sunday, 30th December, 1708 ; he was a good, Priest and exemplary Liver,

Parish Church, Carrickbeg :-Mr. Sausse sold the ruin and land to the P.P., Rev. Michael Power, who restored the former. .

in a slipshod style : windows do not match and in ail inscription. in memory of the event which he erected, he spelled- parishioners without the second i-which made Dr. Connolly remark, he had lmockecl an eye out of the parishioners (q).

1798.-Julie 22nd. This day the High Sheriff (r) came to

(0) Rev. William Power had been Parish Priest of Trinity Without (Ballybricken) since 1766 and survived his translation t o Carrick-on-Suir by some eight years. He it was who introduced a community of Presentation Nuns into Cdrrick in 181 2.

( p ) The prisoners in this case were political-taken up for participation. in the rising or suspicion thereof. The item is here taken out of its proper context, scil. :-the Insurrection.

(4) This note which was added long after our diarist3 time refers to the erection, &c., of the present Catholic church of Camckbeg in 1827, or thereabout, and conveys a misleading impression. Rev. M. Power-though he knocked an i out of his parishioners-did not restore the church in a bizarre fashion as suggested. He did not in fact restore a t all, but he built a new church on site of its conventual predecessor, and, with considerable taste and an, eye to economy, he incorporated in his new building some portions of the older structure whch lent themselves to this treatment. ,

( r ) The High Sheriff was the inhuman Sir Thos. Judkin Fitzgerald, and the arrests were made on the denunciation of a notorious informer and ,

Carrick and took prisoners Messrs. Matt Scott, Phil Higgins, Frans. Doyle . . . . (s) and in Carrickbeg, the Parish Priest, Frans. White, Dan and Pat Boyle and some others of less note, 4 were punished, some gave bail and some [were] held over.

1802.-Confirmation :-Dr. Hussey confirmed a t Chapel of Carrick on Monday, the 20th of September, and at Carrickbegg next day : the last .confirmation was in August, 1791.

1804.-Consecration :-Rev. Dr. Power of Waterford mas consecrated Bishop of waterford and Lismore on Wednesday (St. Mark's Day), April 25th ; a great number of the clergy attended besides six Bishops.

perjurer-one Stephen Devany. Francis Doyle, a respectable merchant and cloth manufacturer of the town. was one of the four punished, although his perfect innocence and loyalty was vouched for by the local magistrates. Notwithstanding the masjstrate~' remonstrances this representative of law and order had the unfortunate man stripped and flogged in the public street. Having received fifty lashes the mangled victim fainted ; on recovering his senses he was, however, awarded a second fifty, and, on conclusion of the horrid performance, he was assured he should undergo a repetition of It the following day. Doyle took legal proceedings, claiming heavy damages, against the sheriff, but the latter put obstacles in the way of trial and it was only in April, 1801, that the case was heard in Clonmel before Lord Avonmore. Fitzgerald pleaded justification, political necessity, '!kc., but the judge charged against him ; some time after retirement of the jury a member of the latter was sent to enquire whether they could find a verdict for the defendant without costs. Notwithstanding the trend of the evidence and the judge's charge and in defiance of both the jury returned a verdict in favour of the defendant. Poor Doyle was saddled with Defendant's costs, amounting to A424 2s. 8d., which added to his own totalled upwards of L700. Before the writer is a copy ot the sub-sheriff's acknowledgment of payment on an execution issued by the ex-sherift :- Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, Bart., Received from the Defendant, Francis

Plaintzo. Doyle, Four Hundred and Twenty-Four Francis Doyle, Pounds Two Shillings and Eight Pence Ster-

Defendant. ling being the Sum marked a t the Foot of the Fieri Facias

directed to the Sheriff of the County of Tipperary in this Cause, Dated this second Day of November, 1801.

SAMUEL WALLER, A424 : 2 : 8 Sterling. Sub-sherig,

County o / Tipperary. I A report of .the case was printed for the Plaintiff by H. Fitzpatrick

No. 4, Cape1 Street, in 1801.

(s) This was Rev. IVilliam Lonergan, who had been Parish Priest of Carrickbeg since 1762 and who survived till 1804. We can easily divine the reason of his arrest ; in the preceding year he had publicly denounced Devany, the informer, for notorious perjury against James Smith, Richard Sexton, and Patrick Sullivan all of Carridk-on-Suir and all alleged to ,be united Irish- men, as vide ' < Finn's Leinster Journal" for October 14th, 1797.

Chapels burned in Co. Wexford in 1798 and for three years .

after by the Ofangemen (t) :- 1798.

Boolevogue .... May 27th Moglass .... .... ,, 30th Ramsgrange .... June 19th Drunigold ..+. ,, 21st Ballymurrin .... ,, 21st Gorey .... .... Aug. 24th Castletown.. .. .... Annaunragh .... Sept 2nd Crane .... .... ,, 17th Rock .... .... Oct. 12th Balliduff .... .... ,, 19th Riverchapel .... ,, 19th Manaseed .... .... ,, 26th Cloghlogue .... Nov. 11th Killeveny .... .... ,, 18th Bulard .... .... ,, 28th

1799. .... Ballygarret Jan. 15th

Ballyaainoneybegg , , 18th Ashamore. .... .... Feb. 24th

.... A'Iurntown Apr. 24th

.... Monanioling May 3rd Kilrush .... .... ,, 15th Marshalstown, June 8th & 9th

.... Munfin ,) ,)

.... Crossabeg .... June24th

.... Killineerin .... ,, 29th ..... Monageer .... July 1st

1800. Glailbryan - March 13th

.... Kaim .... Sept. 3rd

.... Ballyniackesy

1801. Courtnlacuddy .... Aug. 13 th

The Protestant Church of Old Ross was burned June 2nd, 1798, being the only church burned in the whole county then in the greatest ferment.

1804.-The church of Carrick and the old steeple pulled down to be rebuilt in April and May thi"s year, t

New chapel of ~ a & c l ~ built this year and the old one pulled down (u)

1803.-Rev. Nichas Herbert died May 3rd. Rev. Dr. Russey, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, died

suddenly, July 1 l th (v).

(t) The diarist does not tell us the source of his information. He cannot have known the facts from personal observation and i t would be interesting to be told whence he procured them.

fzt) The "church" is the Protestant church of Carrick which is so desig- nated to more clearly distinguish i t from the "chapel" of the place.

(v) He got a stroke of apoplexy as he was dressing after bathing at Dunmore East about 6.0 a.m. and lingered till 9!.0 b ~ l t never recovered con- sci6u~ness.

1804.-On Easter Monday, April Znd, died a t his house very suddenlv Rev. William Lonergan (w) .

1804.-Sunday, July lst, 1804, a meeting was held at the Sacristy to consider the state of the chapel. I t was agreed to p d l it down. A subscription list was opened and twenty-nine persons present subscribed between them £313 0s. Od. The plans of the new chapel were laid before the meeting.

Monday, 9th.-The old chapel began to be pulled down ; the subscription list is now a t about i900. Monday, 16th.- first stone of new chapel laid. Its area is 82 feet long by 62 feet wide, making in all 5,004 square feet, which at 2 feet square to each person will accommodate 1,250 persons, and galleries, 17 feet wide, and quite round the house will accomoclate 360 persons more. The lower floor will hold, a t above computation, within 94 persons of double the number of the old chapel lower floor would accommodate. Walls of new chapel built in forty-eight days, first slate laid 20th September, and slating finished October loth, that is it was done in twelve days by two men-all except laying ridge pole and lead. Flooring of the chapel begun September 24th by two masons (Thos. Bryone and Jams. Quigly). The superintendent of whole building was Jno. Stone, assisted by committee of ten or twelve subscribers, and the P.P., Mr. McKenna, at their head, and Mr. Richd. Clarke, a good honest Protestant, the chief of them. The slates we bought by the ton, 52 tons @ 3 guineas a ton. Dress- ing, slating, and cramming or rendering were clone bj7 a Mr. Lewis a t 10s. by the square yard, and find labourers himself. This is

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the greatest breadth ever before covered in Carrick by a single roof, the rafter being about thirty-eight feet. long. After two or three days of flooring work two more masons were added, viz. :- Phil Carrigan and Sam Falkener, and Carrigan used to lay all : (the tiles ?) the other three could square or dress. The rendering was fin4ished, October 24th, and the stairs began to be carried up the same clay ; there were six steps?,laid in the evening though the first was not laid till 1.0 p.m. he writer measured the plinths of the pillars and the window stools. The pillars, eight in number, and the stools, twenty-four, measured 4279 feet square @ 16d. per foot. The first Mass was said in the new chapel, November l l t h , a great crowd attended, but a t third (and last) there was an un-

(ZP) See note (s) supra.

usually large crowd and great numbers were obliged to remain outside. During the progress of the building the Masses were said seventeen Sundays in Carrickbeg Church. The new chapel was built on the site of the old one.

1804.-Church un-roofed and repaired and the old steeple or belfry pulled down.

The ball and cross put up a t chapel,. January 9th, 1805. The ball weighs 467 lbs., and is 22 inches in diameter. On March 12th a meeting of subscribers was held who agreed to pay in a british Is. or 6d. each per Sunday, beginning with Sunday, 17th (Patrick's Day), and a good many shillings were received and sixpences from the lower class of subscribers of whom the writer was one.

1806.-Rev. Mr. McKenna built a new house a t Pill. Mr. Murphy began to teach church singing the beginning of

this year and the maidens sang the 2nd Wednesday of Lent after evening prayers to the great pleasure and surprise of the hearers. First singing at Mass was on Easter Sunday, April 6th.

1805.Poor school, kc., built near Pill road on June and July this year on ground bequeathed for the purpose by Mr. James Doyle and confirmed by his father sometime after James' death ( x ) . Mansion house belonging to the new poor school near Pill Road began to be built the second week of June.

The charity school a t Pill opened on Monday, April 20th, 1806. I t had been consecrated (blessed) thirty. days previously.

A charity school for girls was opened near the Green this . dmonth (September, 1806).

1807.-Death :-Rev. Johii McKenna, P. P. of Carrick, died suddenly, August 20th. Went fdom his house near Pill to the Monastery to saj; Mass lor the Monks and scholars, but he grew sick: ancl said no Mass but went home and died shortly after. He was probably the best preacher in the diocese. He gave £100 towards building the new chapel, ancl on. opening a third subscription list he promised 10 g~jneas more which still remains due. He was about 50 years old. He came to this parish July 19th, 1790, being 17 yrs. and 30 days.

(To be continwed).

( x ) This .was the monastery and schools of the Christian Brothers, Carrick, the second house of the Order founded by Mr. Rice,

APPENDIX. -

FOR THE LEINSTER JOURNAL. -

A N ELEGY

ON T H E DEATH OF T H E REVEREND

MICHAEL D'ARCY OF CARRICKdONHSUIR.

How oft are honoured in elegiac strain, Nen who nought else possessed but wealth and fame ;

Whose greatest objects were the pageants vain Of worldly grandeur and an empty name.

Too oft the venal muse has stooped to praise In flowing numbers and in verse divine ;

Ambition's mild career ; whose winding maze Presents at every turn some faulty crime.

A mourner oft for tyranny has stood, Which every sweet domestic bliss destroys ;

For conqu'rors ; who, whole nations laid in blood, And stop'd the current of all social joys.

But when the inan who nobler ends pursued, 'Of justice and humanity the cause

Espoused ; and gainst vice and passions lewd, Maintained the rights of virtue's sinking laws.

Whose every act a virtuous heart betrays Of human kind the lover and the friend ;

Whose highest joy was his creator's praise T' advance his honour, still his glorious end.

Such worth too often in oblivion dies. . .

Nor tribute to such virtuous merits paid ; i

Oft undistinguished gains its native skies, Where endless honour awaits the happy shade.

Yet D'Arey still, tho' low in earth thou'rt laic1 The tears of virtue still for thee shall flow

Still to thy worth that tribute shall be paid And fain some honour would the Muse bestow.

For every act was thinc that could adorn Humanity, and raise this mortal state

'Eove the degree in which mankind are born ; For sure the man that's good is truly great.

How oft in silence, have thy steps been lead, Unto the house of Penury and Pain ;

For still thou sought misfortune's haunts to tread, And from the heart to chase her woful train.

Well couldst thou teach the doctrine of thy God And well did teach each clutious debt to pay ;

In every precept shewed to Heaven the road. Thy precepts tamght, and thou didst lead the way.

The heedless sinner oft thoti would'st persuade- With manners gentle and with soothing voice ;

The dangerous path of vice to cease to tread And heavenly virtues love, the better choice.

If dire oppression sought the weak to crush, Undaunted thou the vile attempt mithstoocl ;

The cheek of hackney'd vice would cause to blush, For still unshaken thou wert always good,

When death approach'd with slow and threat'ning pace Thy constancy betrayed np weakly grief ;

From error free thou ran thy equal race , Till death from mortal soir-ow gave relief. I

Relief ! What word has pass'd my hasty thought ? To endless glory 'tis, thy soul has flown ;

By angels wafted to the realms of light Where bliss and heavenly joys are now thy own.

No wealth thou'st left, to raise the sculp'tured stone Whose words should show the virtues of thy mind ;

Thy soul to heaven is fled thy dust alone And great example thou hast left behind.

CARRICIT-ON-SUIR, July 21s.4 1790.

- THE WATERFORD MERRYS.

[V7ke?z the nwient Celtic fanzlily oJ O'Hoolahan (O'L-Unllachai~z) was disfiossessed of its territory i n Hy-Maine i n Connaught i n the sixteenth centwy membem of the family settled i n vario.rts parts of Leinster changing their su~naufzes to Alervy, MacMerry, am? FitzMert/y.j

T is recorded that on June loth, 1559, Richard Merry, alins Hoolahan, of Callan, Co. Kilkenny, received his . pardon. As confirmation of the Merry-Hoolahan identity the following entry from , a manuscript

' volume in the British RIuseum may be recorded here :-

a THOMAS MERRY alias HUOLAGHANE of Castle Town in the county of Kilkenny Gent. eldest

son of Richard MerrJ of Callen in the said County Gent. Deceased. The first mentioned Thomas took for his zd Wife Mary daughr

of John White of Kells in the County of Killtenny Gent. by whome he had issue 2 children' one Son and one Daughter Viz. Richard Merry the son and Margarett the Daughter both young and unmarried. The said first mentioned Thomas departed this mortal1 life at Castletown aforesaid the . . of Novemr 1638, and was interred in or Ladies Church in Callan aforesaid. The truth of the premises is testified by the Subscription of Pierce als Peter

Merry, Cozen of the defunct who bath re tur~~ed this certifficate to be recordqn my Office taken by me Thomas Preston Esqr Ulvester King of Arlnes the 9th of May 1639.

There is also a record in the archives of the Ulster Icing of Arms dated 9th May, 1639, which states that Thomas Merry, alias O'Huolaghane, of Castletown in Co. Iiilkenny, eldest son of .Richard Merry of the same county, died in 1638. His will is dated 1638 and was proved in 1639. Thomas Merry was married to Mary White of Waterford, and one of the bequests is to his brother-

. in-law, Thomas White of Waterford, to whom he left his "hount and studd mare with her conlt." There are other bequests to his daughter Margaret, and a witness to the will is Philip Merry. Some of Thomas Merry's children settled in Waterford but there is no record cliscoverable as to the exact date when they went to Waterford. From a pedigree registered in the Office of Arms in lreland in 1812 we learn that Richard Memy of Waterford, Esquire, married a daughter of Nicholas Purcell, of Waterford, and his wife Catherine OJBrien. There is no date given in connection with this Richard Merry but in all probability he flourished in the latter half of the seventeenth century. His son, Peter, married Margaret, daughter of Richard Egan and Catherine, his wife, who was a daughter of Edward Butler and Eleanor Grace. A son of' this marriage was James Merry, of Waterford, who married Beatrix daughter of Peter Moyry, described as "Gentleman," and Anne his wife, a daughter of James Geraldine. James Merry had three sons : John, Peter, and Gerald. Peter died in 1775 and Gerald in 1773. John, the eldest son, married Mary, daughter of Francis Murphy of Waterford, and Mary, his wife, a daughter of Thomas Murphy of Callan, and Margaret, his wife, daughter of Patrick Lincoln of Waterford, Alderman. John had two sons, Joseph and John Peter, and a daughter Mary. Joseph went to Seville about 1770 and married there Manuela, daughter of Anclrew Gayte, of Seville, in Spain, a merchant. He died in 1804. He had five sons and two daughters :-Joseph, John, Francis, Raphael, Anthony, Mary, and Manuela. Joseph subsequently came to Ireland and '

'instituted the lamuit against the executors of his aunt, Mary Power Merry, who bequeathed funds for the foundation of a Home for Distressed Ladies in Waterford. Nothing is recorded of the second son, John. Francis was a prominent officer on the staff

of Don Carlos of Spain. Raphael was the grandfather of Cardinal Merry del Val. Anthony carried on for many years in Seville the business of wine merchant .

John Peter (second son of John Merry) was born in Waterford in 1745. Like his brother he left Waterford in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He settled in London and was a merchant in Copthall Court in the City of London. He died on March 13th, 1804, and was buried in Old St. Pancras Churchyard. the chief place of burial for Catholics in London a t that period. The son of John Peter was George Peter born in London in 1791. He had five sons and one daughter. The eldest son, George, was b o r ~ in London in 181 5. He was a distinglxished Carlist officer and he died in London recently at the advanced age of ninety-five. The second son was Francis who died in infancy. The third son was Charles who was drowned at sea in his sixteenth year. The fourth .son was Ambrose who settled in Canada. He was also drowned. The fifth son was Joseph Xavier x7ho was born in 1825 and who is still living in London.

Joseph Xavier Merry is the eldest living direct representative of the house of Merry. He married Elizabeth Russell, and the following children of the marriage at present reside in London :-

' Thomas Joseph Russell, George Robert, Mary Frances, and Albert Edward. Mary Frances is married to Francis Nathaniel Downey, eldest son of Edmund Downey of Waterford, novelist. It is somewhat remarkable that after a lapse of about a century and a half the connection of the Merry family with Waterford should have been recently renewed.

I n the Heraldic and Genealogical Directory of London (1880) the following sketch of George Merry appears. "Captain George John Thomas Merry of 35 Warwick Road, New Brompton, S.W., eldest son of the late George Peter Merry, of Copthall Court, in the City of London, by Letitia, daughter of Thomas Lewis, Esq., of Trinity Square, Tower Hill, was born a t Brighton in 1817, is married and has one son, Godfrey Pitney, the eminent artist.

"Whilst serving in the Carlist army during the first, or seven years, Carlist War of 1833-40, Captain Merry was engaged in the siege of Bilbao from October to December, 1836, and in defence of the Carlist lines at St. Sebastian in March, 1837. He was present a t the following battles :-Huesca and Barbastro, Guisona, Chiva,

Villar de 10s Navarros, Ketuerta. He also took part in the assault made at San Pedor and on Guadalaxara. With his battalion, the Guras de Alava, he took part in numerous skirmishes in the open

. country, and at several attacks in crossing rivers, &c. During the retreat from Madrid Captain Merry was seized with typhus fever and was taken prisoner by the Christino troops on 28th October. .

1837. Captain Merry is decorated with the following orders : St, Fernando and Crgss for Battle of Huesca, Cross for Battle of Villar de 10s Navarros, Isabel la Catolica, St. Hermenegildo, Charles 111. He returned to England in 1838 and entered the Admiralty where he remained until his retirement in 1869.'' j

- George Pitney Merry, above-mentioned, now resides in London. Cardinal Merry dcl Val was entrusted in his youth to the care

of his kinsman, Captain Merry, then residing in London, The Genealogical Directory goes on to say that amongst the

many distinguished members of the Merry family may be noted Cardinal Wiseman, whose mother was a member of the SeviUe branch of the Meriys. This is incorrect. Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman was the younger of two sons of James Wiseman by his (second) marriage with Xaveria, daughter of +Peter Strange, of Aylwardstown, near Waterford. But possibly the Stranges and the Merrys were related to each other by marriage.

Apparently the Merrys during their long residence in Waterford City did not enter into public life. There is no entry concerning them in the available municipal records. Some years ago Mr. Joseph Xavier Merry visited Waterford in order to discover if any recorcls of his Waterford ancestors could be found in the city but he could light upon nothing except the "Merry Foun- dation," the almshouse on Convent Hill erected and maintained out of the beq~~est of his grand-aunt Mary who married Robert Power, a merchant of Waterford. Writing subsequently to a friend in Waterford Mr. Merry said, humourously :--"There were lots of Merrys (up to no good) wandering about during the Stuart reigns ; but these are remote people and my only interest is in the Water- ford Merrys. "

The founder of the Ladies' Asylum on Convent Hill bequeathed by her will dated 1804 k8,700 to her trustees, the Most Rev. Dr. John Power, Bishop of Waterford, and Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Irish Christian Brothers. The object of the charity

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was to relieve twelve reduced gentlewomen of the City of Waterford and to support and educate poor children. The charity is now under the control of the Commissioners of Charitable Bequests, and is managed by the local Superior of the Christian Brothers.

I t is interesting to recall that a famous lawsuit arose out of this bequest. . The brother of Mary Power was Joseph, a merchant of Seville. He was her next of kin and residuary -

legatee. He died intestate and his son, Joseph, came over to Ireland and brought a suit in -the Spiritual Court to have the will set aside on the grounds that it had been unduly obtained and that i t disposed of a large property to Papists and for superstitious uses. Dr. Power, the acting executor, was Catholic Bishop of Waterford, and he strongly objected to the upsetting of the will. He insisted that there were no grounds for impeaching it ; that there had already been a decree of the Spiritual Court obtained by the trustees of charitable donations, and that it would be unprecedented for the court to interfere until the defendant had an opportunity of making his defence. The Master of the Rolls was John Philpott Curran and his judgment in this case was possibly one of his most masterly and eloquent pronouncements. He found for the will with costs against Joseph Merry. In the course of his judgment Curran said : "I find that the object of the bequest is to provide shelter and comfort for poor helpless females, and clothes and food and instruction for poor orphans. Would to God I could see more fzequent instances of such bequests ! Beauti- ful it must be in the sight of God ; beautiful in the sight of man it ought to be ; to see the last moments of human life so spent in acts of gratuitous benevolence, or even of interested expiation. How can we behold such acts without regarding them as forming a claim to, as springing from, a consciousness of immortality ! "

The ARMS granted to the Merrys are-Argent, on a bend gules, three lozenges or. Quartering : Quarterly, 1 and 4, ermine, an eagle displayed sable ; 2 and 3, gules ; three towers argent, for GAYTE : Quarterly, 1 and 4, argent, a lion rampant gules ; 2 and 3, gules, a lion rampant argent : over all, a pale sable charged with three garbs or, for MURPHY : argent, a shamrock vert, between three mullets azure : a bordure wavy gules, for MOYRY : Quarterly, 1, gules, a tower argent, supported by two knights in complete armour, holding in their interior hands a battle axe all ppr. ; in

chief, a snake barwise or ; 2 and 3, or, on a bend vert three plates ; 4, gules, on a tower as in the first quarter, a swan statant argent, for EGAN : and, argent, a boar passant gules, tusked, hoofed and bristled or, langued azure ; on a chief of the last three plates, for PURCELL.

CREST-An arm in armour embowed, the hand brandishing a scymitar, all ppr.

MOTTO-Suprema manus validior. There are no dates recorded in the Merry pedigree lodged

with the Office of Arms until 1773 when the date of the death of Gerald Merry is given. The arms do not belong to any other family, but arms closely resembling them are ascribed to a family named Mercy, about whom nothing is known.

MONUMENTA SEPULCHRALIA.

By JAMES BUCKLEY, M.R.I.A.

HE original MS., which is now for the first time printed, is preserved in the Britist Museum and marked "Additional MSS., 4783." I t was written about three hundred years ago-to be exact, between the years 1614 and 1626. The Earl of Ormond, whose name it mentions, died in the former year. An entry in a "funeral1 Booke" (Clarendon MSS, 4793) 1 gives the following particulars respecting him-

" The earle of Ormd. deceafed at Carig 22 Mov. 1614 being 82 years old and is buried 'in the quire of the cathed. church of KilkEy. " Adams, " the now Bp.' of Limerick, who is also refefred to,

died in 1626. It was not uncommon during the seventeenth century for people of social position like this bishop to erect monu- *

ments to themselves in their lifetime. Miler Magrath had one so erected in Cashel. Those old folk were no lukewarm believers in the time-honoured saw-"never put off to to-morrow," &c. But whether their extraordinary haste was owing to the want of more exciting occupation or to a lack of confidence in posterity it is. now difficult to say. I t is however certain that the practise grew into disuse early in the following century and was abandoned altogether towards its close. I t was this premature arrangement

that has since misled so many people who have read the inscripkion on the stone tablet over the doorway of Tubrid Church, County Tipperary, into supposing that Geoffry Keating, whose name is recorded on it, was dead in 1644, the year it bears date. Whereas it is now well lmown that he lived for several years after.

This MS. is the first attempt at recording memorials of our dead, and it long anticipated the good work that is being carried on systenlatically to-day in the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. A few slight additions appear to have been made to it in a later seventeenth century hand. I t will be of much interest to compare the particulars of the persons mentioned in it with what has since been recorded of so many of them in Wave's Bz'sho$s, Cotton's Fasti, and the Journal which has just been referred to.

MONUMENTA SEPULCHRALIA.

in Christchurch Vnder the ~omGion table lieyth intombed John in Dublin ] De St' Paulo Archbishop of Dublin, on whose

tomb I have read these words ingraven in brass , . . . . Hic iacet Ioannes De Sto Paulo quondam Archiepus Dubliniae. Credo quod redeinptor meus vivit ct in novissin~o die de'terra surrectun~s sum et i t e r ~ ~ m circumdabor pelle in carne me% videbo deuni salvatorein ineum.

On the tomb of Rich. Talbot ~ r c h b i s h o ~ of Church Dublin these words are ingraven in brass.

Talbot Ricllardus iacet hic sub marmore presens Archi.fuit presul lzuius sedis reverende parvos Canonicos qui fundavitque choristas A" MO CqU ter x qOque ix" .quindeno Augusti inensis inundo vale dixit omnipotens D G s cui . - ppicietur in evum.

There lyeth alsoe intoinbed Michael1 Tregury another Archby. of that Sea (in a chappell called (blafik) wth his image on The Stone and these words Presul Metropolis Michael hic Dubliniensis marinore tumbatus, pro me Christ: flagitetis Jesus est salvator meus. obiit 1471. Dec. 21.

John Payne Bp. of Meth his mont wth verses Mitrani qui possides &c.

St Henry MJallops monint who died 1599. a +

Cath. in Christchurch in A" 1522 Bp. Rich. Comyn & Deane in Waterford i Rob. Lumbard adorned the church ex-

ceedingly (Ispecially the quire and the roof of the Church) with gould & Curious imagery as appeareth by their names and the yeare in the entry of the Quire doore.

There is alsoe an extraordinary curious moimmt of James Rice in a Chappell of the cathedral1 called Rices Chappell.

A By. buried in the wall of one of the Iles of the Church. I could only read thus much of the Epitaph. . . Waterfoordensis Epq qui obiit vii" May 1446. Cath.

i Two tombes neere togeather of two bps of

In st Kennyes Ossory wth their statuas thereon well wrought. or the neerest to the quire doore seemeth to be Church of BP Mapiltons (one of the chief founders) by Killtenny the windowes & other church work ingraven

thereon. Another BG statua is on a tomb neere the Quire in the wall. A tomb of BP Deane in the quire togeather wth Iohn de Carlile - Another of BY Walsh in the South side of the body of ch An excellent monument of Thomas late Earle of Ormond

and another of Pe. Butler Erle, who died 26 Aug., 1539. A tomb of BP Gafuey in a small chappell on the north side of

the Quire. A tomb in the Chapter howse of BP Horssall.

Cath. \ The tomb of Milerius Magrath ArchbP of in St Patricks Casshell in the wall wth his statua thereon the Church of picltture of the Crucifix and St Patrick. Casshell. The Tomb of Edrn. Butler ArP of Cash.

wt" his statua & armes, and only these words Hie iacet.

The tomb of Iohn o Hedian deane. The Tomb of another Archbishop with his statua thereon

(in a little chappell) in the wall before you enter the quire. St Pa : Stone in St Cormucks Church and another BPS tomb

in the wall wth out St Corrnucks Church in a little open court. The Stone whereon the ancient ks. of Mounster were pro-

claymed in the ascent to the Church. (Added in a later hand broken down 1641"])

Parosh I on Ph. Walls tomb. Hic iacet Phil. Wall Civis in St Tohns Cite Cassel qui obiit 21 die mens. Dec. Ao. d. 1526, Church of and on the same Stone (thus)-Mauritius Cassel, Casshell Archiep. concessit cuilibet dicenti Pater et. Ave

pro z a d z p h i xLta dies indulgentiae totiens quotiens.

Cath. 1 An excellent Monumt of Donald o Erien late In St Maryes Earle of Thomond wth his wifes image and Donogh of L i s c k Carbraghes an ancestor of his-who built the

friery of Dominicans of ~ i g i c l r & there lyes in- , tombed but his mont there is much defaced.

A mont of Berrd Adams the now Bp. and of Cornelius o Dae a formr bp. very curious wt" their images thereon. .

In Ieripont

1 A tomb of an ancient king wth his statua thereon

Abbey neere a dragon vnder him. the Shoor Many other ancient tombes wth statuaes a mile from of knights and good worlcmanship. Thomastowne A Tomb of Felix o Dullany Bishop of Ossory

who died An. 1200. Cath. I on the tombe of Mathew Saunders Bp. of In St Lazerianus Leghlin (who new built the quire. of the Chtlrch in.Leighlin church) these words are written. Hic iacet

Matheus Saunders Ep< Leighlin qui obiit 23 Septem Ao. Dm 1549 cuius a Z ppicietr deus.

Sub eodem tumulo sepultus iacet Thomas Filay Epq ibidem Leighlin qui obij t 1567. in St Edmunds On a tomb of Robert Walldby Archbp of chappell in i Dublin and afterwards ArchbP of Yorck. Westminster. Hic fuit expertus quoties in iure Robertus de

Walby dictus, nunc est sub marmore strictus Sacrz Scripture Doctor f t~i t et geniturz ingenuus medicus et plebis semp. amicus.

ARCHEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY MISCELLANY.

By P.

To those of us old enough to remember the well known publishing house of Downey of London and its output the advent of a new book bearing the once familiar imprint is a distinctly pleasure- giving incident. When the book is one dealing with Waterford history its appearance superadds interest and profit to pleasure. These remarks are suggested by the receipt through Messrs. Downey and Co. of " Waterford and the Civil War, 1641-1653," reprinted from the papers of this JOURNAL. My readers do not require to be told that consequent on the disturbances preceding or involved in the wars of the mid-seventeenth century in Ireland a commission or quasi-commission was issued to enquire into the alleged massacre and despoiling of Protestants. Nor do they require to be told that the findings or pseudo-findings of the commission have furnished material for controversy ever since. The present work cannot be regarded other than a very valuable contribution to the question, containing as it does the original evidence for one county, now for the first time published. We may, I presume, take the evidence from Waterford as fairly typical of the evidence generally adduced before the commission. This therefore is the special value of the documents here printed that they enable the historical student to examine and see for himself, and at first hand, the grounds upon which accusations, centuries old, have been based. The introduction, which, by the way, did not appear in the JOURNAL, though decidedly partisan in tone is nevertheless of much value as furnishing the necessary historical setting for the docuqents. Appended to the latter is the remarkable statement of Urban Vigors now also, probably for the first time, made available. Vigors was chaplain to Lord Broghill and this " statement" throws much light on the causes and character of the

disturbances in Co, Waterford. To prevent possible misunder- standing in the future i t may be as well to put on record here that the topographical footnotes, even when not specifically labelled, are not Dr. Fitzpatrick's but were added by the writer of this present notice a t the Doctor's desire. Alas that Dr. Fitzpatrick did not live to see his book through the press. Though dead Bow-' ever, he still speaks in his work and by his example, which, let us' hope, will spur on original investigators to take up the work where in his old age and in ill health he was obliged to leave i t off. It only remains to add that production of the book in its present form reflects high credit on the Waterford houses concerned therein.

AMONGST recent miscellaneous arch~ological publications may be mentioned as of perhaps more than ordinary interest to local readers the Illustrated Descriptive Guide to Waterford and its vicinity, prepared and published in connexion with the recent visit of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland to the Urbs Igztacta. The gaide is printed a t the University Press, Dublin, and is sold a t one shilling, From Bath in England comes a rather suggestive work on local archzology-the production of a country rector. I call it suggestive because i t seems to indicate lines on which local investigators amongst ourselves could do much useful work. The book is entitled " Records by Spade and Terrier" (Bath ; Geo. Gregory), and i t treats in a light and gossipy, but by no means uncritical, or unscientific, vein of local stone age, Celtic and Roman remains, place and family names, ancient customs and folk-lore, &c., &c., and the whole is illustrated by pers'onal reminiscences, anecdotes and photographs. Somewhat sinzilar suggestion emanates from various publications of the Viking club recently received ; these deal with ancient lore and remains of Northern Scotland and the Isles. It is curious, by the way, to read in the Kirk Session Records of Canisby i11 Caithness how, unGer date June 26t11, 1664, a number of persons for superstitiously lighting bonfires on the preceding eve of St. John are condemned to have their names read out in church on next Sabbath Day, kc. Oul Society member, Mr. E. R. McC. Dix, contributes a preface to Bishop Bedell's Irish version of the Psalms recently published by Hanna and Neale (Dublin). The motive of publicatioii is to supply an

accurate copy of Beddell's original text, which in later editions, has been considerably departed from. The "Gaelic American" (New York) is publishing, under the editorship of our occasional contributor, ( ( ~ I A C ~ A ei~edc," some hitherto unknown remains of the Waterford Gaelic poets of the eighteenth century. Issues just to hand contain pieces by Kathleen Condon of Coolnabeasoon, in the parish of Caishlan Cuanach, and Richard Condon of Camphire Bridge respectively.

THE exclusion of Ireland from purview of the new legislation concerning National antiquities is exceedingly regrettable. Though of relatively greater interest, Irish antiquities are outside the - province of the three Commissioners at present engaged in collection. of all available "information regarding the arch~ological remains of England, Scotland, and Wales. Why is Ireland shut out and who is responsible for the exclusion ?

To Dean Hackett of Waterford I am indebted for a small silver coin recently unearthed in the garden attached to the episcopal residence, the Mall, W7aterford. The coin, which is Bortugcse, is a slight and silent memorial of the pre-Armada intercourse of Waterford with Portugal when ships from the Tagus and the Duoro were an every-day sight at our quays, and olive-tinted Iberian seamell were quite familiar with our streets. The coin is a Real of King Sebastian (1554-1578) who was killed at the ill-fated battle of Alcazar AI-Kebir and is inscribed (obverse)-

" + SEBASTIANUS I. REAL," and on the reverse-

OUR occasional contributor, Sedmur U A ~ a p m e to whom, by the way, we offer congratulations on his recent fine appointment under the Insurance '~o&mission-has a highly interesting illustrated article on Philip Barron's Irish College in the last "Irish Book Lover." Through courtesy of Dr. crone the editor, and kindness of Mr. O'Cassidy, I am enabled to reproduce, as frontis-' piece to the present issue, Barron's own illustration of the famous college.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

William 11 1, in Waterford,-The following interesting letter is taken from Belcher's Mewmir o/ Sir Pai~ick D U ~ J

. (I<?%i.), M.D., M.P., p. 27, and is worth reprinting here for the information it discloses on our local history. At the time of the Revolution of 1688, Dun was a partisan of the winning side. He got appointed "Physician of the Army in Ireland" a id , in that capacity, he accompanied King \Villiamls army and was present a t some historic scenes. The ending of the letter suggests the presence of a censor.

Reverend Sir,--l gott to the Camp on lMunday night late and could not find Sr. Robert Suthell, [Principal Secretary of State for Ireland. Ob. 1702, Ancestor of Viscount Southwell]

' on l'eusday morning early we were commanded away with the army designed for Waterford, it was surrendred yesterday. the

' ,King went thither, but the Irish were not marched out, the King did not goe into the toun, he rid about part of the walls and marched away to Major Gen. Kirk's tent dined there, returned to Car% whether, I could not gett before this night, just as I came Sr. Robert received ane express from England I could not gett access to sped= with him, 1 delivred your letter to Mr. Waller who promised to deliver it the first opportunity, the news by the express is that the freilch are on their own coasts and all agree in England to oppose the French, and all is well there, the King sent away his baggage this morning, he wil! be with you in Dublin on Mnnday and goeth for England in a few dayes, Count Solms is left generall, Gen. Douglass forces and ours meet at t goldn Bridge neare Cashel, we expect that this night or to Morrow morning Dunganon will be surrendred, we march to Clonmel we know no more, I wrote

this night to 13011. Venner since I went to the Treasury office Mr. Cunisby had not sent the order for the money therefore I did not leave the office before I saw Mr. Robinson write a letter to Mr. Fauns [probably Mr. William Fowues, appointed in 1693 Comptroller of the Customs at Youghalj to supply the Coll. with a hunder pound on Demand, Mr. Fauns will be found att the Custom house Cork house I have told Dr. Hutton that you can deliver to him his gold, the Key of my Closet where it is and a11 my other Keys are in the black C.abinet in the outer room, If you cannot easily find the box brake it open accommodat Dr. Hutton as well as you can, we expect that Youghall and Cork will soon surrender they will not lett me write any more.

I am Sir Your most humble and

Faithful1 servant Carili 26 July 1690 DUN.

Dr. Hutton's cloke is hanging behind my bed.

To the reverend Doctor William King

att his lodgings near the Dolphin in Skinner Row

Dublin

King was afterwards (17021729) Protestant 'Archbishop of Dublin.

J. BUCKLEY.

Lynch's Greek Grammar.-Since compiling the bibliograp'ny of Patrick Lynch which was .published recently in this JOURNAL

(1912, vol. xv, p. 107) I have acquired a copy of one of the rarest of his publications (s). The title page reads as follows :-

" GRZCB GRAMMATICZ INSTITUTIO COMPENDARIA, IN USUM SCHOLARUM. Qriarn, EX Prolixiore Schol. West- monast. Grammatica Contraxit EDW. WETENHALL, D.D* Episc. Kilnlore E t ~ i d a ~ h , Quibus Dicecess succ. An. 1693 praefuitquead ob. An. 1713. EDITIO NOVISSIMA, Jam variis ic locis emendata, esemplis przceptisclue nonnullis necessariis illustrata, et ad Pnerol-urn captum magis

accommodata a P. LYNCH, Lat. E t Gr8c.LL.P. DUBLINII : Typis ' Graisberry E t Campbell, Ifz Vic. Back-Lane ; Impensis vero P. WOGAN, vi$ Ormonianii infer, v,d. LOWY Oy~zond-Quay ; Bibliopolz M.DCCC., IX. "

The book is a duodecimo of 98 pages.

s&mus u~ CASND~.

Taclbg Gaodha1ach.--In the list of editions of this poet's works published some time ago in this JOURNAL (191 1, v01. xiv, p 113) there is a reference to a supposed "Clonmel 1810" edition (c), but on a careful ex&minatioii of the authority quoted I am inclined to ,

think that the book refei~ed to in the "Irish Book Lover" (1910) is the Rev, Dr. Henebry's copy of the Clonmel 1802 edition (B).

So that it may be assumed that there is practically no evidence , that an edition was printed in 1810. The second edition was

probably the "New Edition" (D) printed in Clonmel in 1812 (24mo.

90 PP.) Some time ago I acquired a copy of a rare edition (Y) not

previously noted by me. I t is entitled " Timothy OJSullivan's Commonly Called Taidhag Gaodhlach's Pious Miscellany. Enlarged; Improved, and Corrected. With An Appendix Of Other Religious Compositions, In Irish ; And Recommended To All Devout Catholics As A Work Of Great Merit. Fourteenth Edition. By Patrick Denn, ' Cappoqt~in. Coi-lc : Daniel Mulcahy, 36, Patrick Street. 1858."

. Verso Pattison Jolly, Printer, 22, Esses-st. West, Dublin. 24mo. 108 pp. (including frontispiece).

There is a great want of uniformity in the way in which the printers of the Pious Miscellany numbexed their editions.

Patrick Denn.--barn o mloaca~n wrote in Irish a life of Denn which was published in the "Gaelic Journal" (1907). The Rev. I?. Power, M.R.I.A., described in the same journal some Irish MSS. in Qenn's handwriting preserved in St,, John's College,

Waterford. In the Royal Irish Academy there is a MS. (23L12) of s'ome 318 pp. written by Denn. The 168th page of the MS. was finished by him according to the colophorl on the 6th January,

$ 1800, ir? the nineteenth (?) year of his age, and in the parish of Modeligo. I11 a very hurried search through 1821 Census Records of Cappoquin I failed to find Denn's name, though he appears to have been well established there by that time. In the Parliamentary Return of Schools in 1824 Patrick Denn (Roman Catholic) is stated to have a "pay" school (i.e. not free) in Cappoquin. The schoolhouse was of stone and lime and thatched. The cost was £6. Fifty-nine boys (forty-nine according to the return of the Protestant clergy) and eleven girls attended. There were no Protestant pupils and it was not stated whether the scriptures were read. The master's total annual income from the school was Ql, 'of which £9 was received under the will of the late Mr. Magner, of Boston, U.S.A., for educating twenty-four orphans.

Father Power published an edition of the schoolmaster's well-known, poem " Aighneas An Pheacaig" (Waterford, I$%), containing a very interesting bioqraphy of the author. A tablet in Cappoquin churchyard to xemory of Denn and records his death on the 5th July, 1828, at the age of seventy- two years. According to Father Power, Patrick Denn was a native of Coolroe, near Mountain C.astle, Co. Waterforcl, and his father, Laurence Denn, kept a hedge school at Mountain Castle. In the Hearth Money Ledger of 1772 Pat Dinn appears charged for one fixed hearth in the townland of "Grage," and possibly he was the grandfather of the editor of Tadhg Gaodhlach's Pious Miscellany. "

The Keating Memorial.-After many and very vexatious delays work has been commenced and is now in progress on the Keating Chapel at Tubrid. Unless something extraordinary befall, I shall be able to announce its completion in next issue, and also to supply an illustration of the ruin. Since last acknowledgment, I have received the following further subscriptions :-

s. d. Mr. Matthew Butler, Dublin .... .... 5 0 Hon. John D. Ryan, Newfoundland .... 10 0

EDITOR.


& SOUTHREAST OF IRELAND

ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

SECOND QUARTER, APRIL TO JUNE, 1913.

WATERFORD & SOUTHeEAST OF IRELAND


President :-

T H E MOST REVEREND R. A. SHEEHAN, D.D., F.R.S.A

VicedPresidents :- EARL ROBERTS, F.M., G.C.B., V.C., &c.

J O H N N. WHITE, J.P., M.R.I.A. R. J. USSHER, D.L., M.R.I.A.

(For Co, Tipperary)-+OUNT E. DE LA POER, H.M.L. (For Co. Waterford)-C. PERCEVAL BOLTON, J.P.

(Fnr Co. \/Vexford)-CAPT. G. E. H. BARRETT-HAMILTON, B.A., J.P., M.R.I.A. (For Co. Ki1kenny)-REV, W M . P. BURKE,

Committee :- WILLIAM GALLWEY, D.L., J.P. JAMES A. TUCKER. VERY REV. DEAN HACKETT, M.A., B.D., &c. REV. P, POWER, M.R.I.A. ALEXANDER NELSON, D.L., J.P. WILLIAM A. DOBBYN. MISS E, M. PIM. HENRY D. KEANE.

- Hon. Secretary:- REV. W. J, B'CBNNELL, The Presbytery, George's St,, Waterford

Hon. Treasurer :-

PATRICK' HIGGINS, J.P., F.R.S.A., 35, Catherine Street, Waterford

Bankers :-

T H E MUNSTER & LElNSTER BANK, Waterford

Members of the Society. - Bannin, E. J., I.N.S., Otteran Place, Waterford Barrett-Hamilton, Capt. G. E. H., J.P., B.A., M.R.I.A., Kilmanock House

Campile, Waterford, Barron, E. Winston, J.P., Woodstown, Waterford Beary, Michael, C.E,, Dungarvan Benner, H. E,, J,P., BeIlevue Terrace, Tramore Boadle, John W., c/o. Arthur Elliott, 4 Western Drive, Grassendale, Liverpool Board of Works, T h e Secretary, Dublin Blake, Lady, Myrtle Grove, Youghal. Bolton, C . Perceval, J.P., Brook Lodge, Halfway House, Waterford Brenan, R. E., Dungarvan Buckley, James, M.R.I.A., 11, Homefield Road, Wimbledon, Surrey Burke, W. L., National Bank, Dublin Burke, Rev. W. P., Cahir Burtchaell. G. D., M.A., L.L.D, 44, Morehampton Road, Dublin Butler, Matthew, M.R.S.A., 19, Belvedere Place, Dublin Byrne, Rev. Wm., S.T.L., St. John's College, Waterford

Carberry, Thos., Johnstown, Carrick-on-Suir. Carroll, W. H., Manager Munster & Leinster Bank, Waterford Carrigan, Very Rev. W . , P.P.. D.D., M.R;I.A., Durrow, Queen's Co. Castletown, Lord, of Upper Ossory, D.L., F.R.S.A., AbbeyIeix Catholic Young Men's Society, Waterford Chavasse, Major, J.P., Whitfield Court, Waterford Cochrane, Robert, M.I.C.E., LL.D., M.R.I.A., 17, HighfieId Road, Dublin Cotton, Miss, Hill Cottage, Lismore Crotty, Rev. M. C., John's Hill, Waterford .

Cullinan, Rev. John, Manor Hill, Waterford Cummins, Rev. John. C.C., Killrossenty . ,

Cummins, Jeoffrey, Kill, KilmaCthomas ,

Curtis, Miss, c/o Mrs. Kinghorn, Ardoch, Prenton, Birkenhead.

Day, Robert, F.R.S.A., M.R.I.A., Myrtle Hill House, Cork Denny, C. E., J.P., Ballybrado, Cahir Dobbyn, William' A., Clerk of Crown & Peace, Newtown, Waterford Dowley, Rev. Michael, 9 Parnell St., Waterford Dunford, Daniel, Solicitor, Catherine Street, Waterford Dungarvan Club, Secretary of, Dungarvan Dunphy, Rev. P., P.P.,. Cappoquin Dix, E. R. McClintock, M.R.I.A., 17, Kildare. Street, Dublin

Everard, Rev. J., P.P., Clogheen, Cahir

FitzGerald, Lord Walter, J.P., M.R.I.A., F.R.S.A., Kilkea Castle, Maganey, Co. Kildare

Fitz-Gerald, Henry A., South Abbey, Youghal Fleming, Very Rev. Canon W. , St. Mary's, Moorfields, London

MEMBERS OF THE S ~ C ~ ~ T ~ . - - ~ o n t i n u e d . v. '

Flynn, Rt. Rev. Monsignor, Dean, P.P., V.F., St. Anne's Presbytery, Waterford Forde, H. J., J.P., Manor of St. John's, do. Ford, Dr. A., Catherine Street, do. Forsayeth, Lt.-Colonel, Whitechurch House, Cappagh, Co. Waterford Foster, R., 55, Qgay, Waterford ffrench, Very Rev. Canon, Clonegal Rectory, Co. Carlow Furlong, Rev, T. F., Adm., Presbytery, George's Street, Waterford

Gallwey, Wm., J.P.. D.L., Rockfield, Tramore Gardiner, T. G., Manager, Munster and Leinster. Bank, Dungarvan Griffith, P. J., C.E., York House, 13, York Road, Rathmines, Dublin

Hackett, Very Rev. Dean, MA., B.D., The Deanery, Waterford Hammond, J. R., The Mall, Waterford Handcock, Gustavus Frederick, 5 Hazlewell Road, Putney, London, S.W. Healy, Rev. W , , P.P., F.R.S.A., Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny Healy, Rev. P. J., D.D., Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Higgins, Patrick, J.P., Asst. Town Clerk, Waterford

Jennings, I. R. B., J.P., 70, Eccles Street, Dublin

Keane, H. D., Solicitor, John's Hill, Waterford Kelleher, Rev. John, S.T.L., St, John's College, Waterford Kelly, Right Rev. Dr., Archbishop of Sydney, St. Benedict s Catholic Church, Kelly, E. Walshe, Parnell Street, Waterford [Sydney, N.S.W Kelly, Gerald H., Gladstone Street, do. Kirwan, Rev. Michael, B.A., S.T.L., St. John's College, Waterford

Librarian, Free Library, Waterford Librarian, do. Capel Street, Dublin Librarian, do. Thomas St., do Librarian, do. Charleville Mall, Dublin Librarian, do. Lower Kevin St., do. Librarian, Kings Inns' Library, Henrietta Street, Dublin Librarian, National Library of Ireland, Kifdare St., Dublin Librarian, Trinity College, Dublin Librarian University College, Dublin London Library, St. James's Square, London, S.W. Lynch, P. J,, C.E., M.R.I.A., 9 Northbrook Road, Leeson Park, Dublin

Macalister, R. A. Stewart, M.A., F.S.A., Newlands, Clonskeagh, Co. Dublin McCarthy, Rev. John, Ballyduff S.O., Co. Waterford McCoy, A. S., Solicitor, LeoviIle, Waterford MacDonald, Very Rev. Walter, D.D., Librarian, St. Patrqck's College, Maynooth McGuire, John Francis, St. Declan's Place, Waterford Melleray, Lord Abbot of, Cappoquin Mayler, James E., Harristown, Ballyrnitty, Co. Wexford Mockler, Rev. Richard. P.P., Ballylooby, Cahir Mockler, Rev. T., St. John's College, Waterford Morris, Samuel, J.P., Ne-wrarh House, Waterford Mount St. Joseph, Lord Abbot of, Roscrea Murphy, Rev. J., C.C., Lismore, Co. Waterford Murphy, W. J., Secretary " Nationalist," Clonmel

Nelson. A,, J.P., D.L., William Street,, Waterford

vi. MEMBERS O F T H E SOCIETY.-Continued.

O'Brien, John F., Town Clerk, Hon. Sec. Free Library, CIonmeI O'Byrne, Michael, 362 West 118th Street, New York O'Connell, Rev. W. J., The Presbytery, George's St., Waterford O'Connor, Very Rev. Richard, O.F.M., CIonmel O'Daly, Patrick, General Secretary Gaelic League, O'ConnelI St. Upper, Dublin O'DonneII, Rev. W. B., P.P., George's Street, Waterford O'DonneII, Rev. J., P.P., Ardmore, Youghal O'Donnell, Rev. P. J., Ph. D., B.D., 135, East 96th Street, New York City O'Farrell, Rev. M. C., Holy Innocents, 137/9, Wes t 36th Street, New York City Odell, Mrs., Cloncoskraine, Dungarvan O'Hara, Right Rev. H. S., D.D., Lord Bishop of Cashel, The Palace, Waterford O'Hickey, Rev. M. P., D.D., M.R.I.A., Carrickbeg O'Higgins, Thomas F., Abbeyside, Dungarvan Ormond, Rev. W., C.C., St. Mary's, Clonmel Ormond, Rev. L., C.C., St. John's, Waterford OfNeiII, Miss Kate, 107, Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York City O'ReiIly, Rev.Thomas A., O.S.F.. Franciscan Convent, 4, Merchants' Q a y , Dublin O'Sullivan, Aid., Dr. J. J., D.P.H., M.R.C.S.I., The Mall, Waterford

Phelan, James J., Newtown, Waterford Pleysier, Miss, Sion Hill, Ferrybank, Waterford Pim, Miss E. M., Newtown Park, do. Poer, Count E. de La, H.M.L., Gurteen0Ie-Poer, Kilsheelan Poole, A. H., The Mall, Waterford Pope, P. A., F.R.S.A., 1, Priory Place, New Ross Power, P. M., D.L. (Reps. of), Faithlegg, Waterford Power, Rev. P., M.R.I.A., Portlaw Power, Rev, Thomas, P.P., Clashmore, Youghal Power, Walter, Ballyduff N.S., KiImeaden Power, Right Rev. Monsignor, P.P., V.G., Dungarvan Prendercsast, Rev. E., C.C., Carrick0owSuir

Q inn , Fred. J., Springfield, Clonmel

Ridgway, R. G., Riverview House, Waterford Roberts, Earl, F.M., G.C.B., V.C., 47, Portland Place, London W. Roberts, E. A., Gaultier Lodge, Woodstown, Waterford Russell, Edmund, 18, MontreIl Road. Streatham Hill, London; S. W. Ryan, Hon. J. D. Kedra, Circular Road, St. John's, Newfoundland. Ryan. John A., C.E., J.P., 33 Catherine Street, Waterford

Science and Art Department-(J. J. Buckley,) Kildare Street, Dublin Sheehan, Most Rev. R. A., D.D., F.R.S.A., Lord Bishop of Waterford,

Bishop's House, Waterford Shelly. Daniel, Manor Street, Waterford Sheridan, Rev. N. T., Ramsgrange, Campile, Waterford Sisters of Mercy, Portlaw Stevens, B. F., & Brown, 4, Trafalgar Square, ond don W . C St. Munna's Temperance Club, Portlaw

Talbot, Rev. J., Clashleigh, Clogheen Thompson, Joseph, Summerland, Waterford Tucker. James A., Manager National Bank, Waterford

.MEMBERS O F T H E SOCIETY -Continued. vii.

Upton, Henry A. S.. M.R.I.A., Coolatore, Moate, Co. Westmeath Ussher, R. J., D.L., M.R.I.A., Cappagh House, Cappagh S.O., Co. Waterford Ursuline Convent, Waterford

Walsh, Rev. M. F., C.C., Trinity Without, Waterford Walsh, Rev. James, St. Mary's, Clonmel Walsh, Rev. M., C.C. Dungarvan Walsh, Rev. D. F., C.C., Tramore. Walsh, V. Hussey. 24 Ennismore Gardens, London, S,W. Waters, Dr. G. A., Fleet Surgeon R.N., Tramore Whelan, Miss, Corkickle, Whitehaven, Cumberland White, ColoneI J. Grove, J.P., D.L., RockfieId, Cappagh S.O., Co. Waterford White, Wm. James Grove (Crown SoIr. for Kildare), 18., Elgin Road, Dubhn White, J. PI., M.R.I.A., J.P., Rocklands, Waterford White, Edgar, Coolegrean, Newtown, do. Williams, Rev, James, O.S.A., Fethard, Co. Tipperary Windie, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan, M.A., M.D. .F.R.S., F.S.A., Gc., President

Qeen ' s College, Cork Wyse, A. N. Bonaparte, M.A., Herbert Lodge, Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin Wyman & Sons, Ltd., Government Collecting Dept., Fetter Lane, London, E.C.

HONORARY MEMBER.

Hogan, Rev. Edmund, S.J., F.R.U.I., LL.D., M.R.I.A., University College, Dublin

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION lo/-, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

RULES.

I.-That the Society be ' . called . THE M 7 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ A K D SOUTH-EAST OF

IRELAND ARCHWOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

2.-That the purpose of the Society be the promotion of the study of matters having an antiquarian interest relating to Waterford and the South Eastern Counties.

3.-That Ladies shall be eligible for membership.

$.-That the Annual Subscription shall be Ten Shillings, payable on the first of January in each year, and that a payment of £5 shall constitute a Life Member.

5.-That the Society be managed by a President, four Vice- Presidents, and one Vice-president, from each County taking part in the proceedings of the Society, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, and a Coin~nittee of nine Members, any three of whom shall form a quorum.

6,-That an Annual General Meeting, for the purpose of electing the Office and Committee, shall be held before the end of February in each year, and that such election shall be by ballot.

7.-That at the Annual General Meeting in each year the committee shall submit a brief report and statement of the Treasurer's Accounts.

5.-That a Journal be published containing accounts of the proceedings, and coluinns for local Notes and Queries.

9.-That all papers, &c., intended for publication in the Journal shall be subject to the approval of the Committee.

10.-That the date of the Society's Meetings, which may be convened for the reading and discussion of papers and the exhibition of objects of antiquarian interest, shall be fixed by the Committee, clue notice being given to each member.

11.-That all matters touching on existing religious and political differences shall be rigorously excluded from the discussions at the meetings and from the columns of the Journal.

12.-That each Member shall be at liberty to introduce two visitors at the meetings of the Society.

13.-That the foregoing Rules can be altered only at the Annual Genera Meeting, or at a Special Meeting convened for that purpose.

THE KEATING MEMORIAL, TUBRID.

By THE EDITOR.

EPAIRS on the Keating Chapel at T~zbrid have been' completed at last, with the result that, though the ruin stands secure for another century or two, our memorial account has been considerably overdrawn. Under the circumstances I beg to' solicit further assistance. It is scarcely very creditable to us of South-East Ireland that this movement to commemorate Geoffrey Keating should hang fire for lack

of the additional few pounds required to complete the memorial. Suggestion of this memorial, I may remind my readers,

originated with,the Most Rev. President of our Society, who very generously started the fund with a donation of @. T1;e total subscribed up to date has been L28 8s. 8d. of which the greater portion has come from outside Tipperary and Water- lord. Repairs to ' the chapel have, on the other hand, absorbed £36, up to date. Let me outline what has been done and briefly explain again why reyair of the ruin was undeitaken : I t was found, when Tubrid was visited to choose site of the proposed monument, that the chapel erected in the seventeenth century by Dr. Keating and Father Eugene O'Duhy was in a dangerous condition-with its gables overhanging, &c., and it was recognised that to erect a monument within it, would, under the circumstances, be simply folly and waste. Properly spealcing, I suppose, repair

of the ruin should have been the care of the Co. Council of South Tipperary, at public cost. However, having consulted some of the principal subscribers to the Memorial Fund, I determined to devote portion, at any rate, of the ainouiit in hands to securing the tottering structure. As the work proceeded it became evident that its completion would involve expenditure of a much larger amount than the total available. I t was nevertheless considere& best to complete the repairs, trusting to Irish public spirit to make good the deficiency when latter was understood. The ruin has now been thoroughly overhauled and made safe in every part. A pair of stout iron girders with corresponding cross plates, supplied by Messrs. John Hearne & Son, builders, have been introduced to tighten up and secure the overhanging and dangerous gables ; moreover the dense covering of ancient ivy has been cut and re-

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moved, the whole exterior and interior surface of the walls and gables has been pointed, opes have been cleared and their broken joints reset, exposed tops of side walls, gables, and bell-cote have been coilcreted and, finally, a heavy lime tree, overhanging the ruin at its south-east angle and a,cause of much danger, has been removed. All the work, except forging of girders and plates, has been satisfactorily done by Mr. Richard Moloney of Ardfinnan, and the photograph serving as frontispiece to this present issue of JOURNAL shows how the little chapel now looks. The meinorial account is at present overdrawn to the amount of nearly £7 and we shall require £12, £15, or £20 additional for the slab and inscription which are in hands and partly ready, but erection of which must be postponed till funds for the purpose be available. Since our last issue the only subscription received has been one of 10s. from Mr. P. J. Lynch, C.E., M.R.I.A., Kingstown. I feel sure however that the many admirers and students of Dr. Keating only require to be notified how the meinorial stands to ensure it their iinmediate and financial support. Further subscriptions will be thankfully received and acknowledged by the Editor of this JOURNAL, C/O. Messrs. Harvey & Co., Printers, Waterr'ord.

THE COUNTY OF WATERFORD, 1775,

Edited by THOS. U. SADLEIR, M.R.1.A , Editor of the "Kildare Archzeological Journal."

IS list of -the principal gentry 111 the county was compiled by the Right Hon. George Ponsonby, some time Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and we may infer from the fact that their incomes are in each'case stated that it was intended for electioneering purposes. I11 those days of El0 free-holders, a man's rent-roll was the key to his political influence.

To show further the use for which i t was drawn up we should point out that the names of the local Members of Parlia-

. ment, even where they were not landed proprietors, are also given. The life of George Ponsonby has yet to be written : he was the second son of the Right Hon. John Ponsonby, so long speaker of the Irish House, and after a brilliant career a t the Bar entered ~arli&nent in 1776 as Member for the Borough' of Wicklow. Political corruption was then rife, and Ponsonby, who sat inGthe Whig interest, a t once came into prominence by his persistent efforts to stem corruption and to relax the severity of the Penal Code. His eloquence soon placed him at the head of the popular party. I11 1782 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and a t the general election in the following year he was returned for the Borough of Inistiogue, for which he sat in two parliaments, Not.i~l7ithstaniliizg his own blameless character he failed in his cfiorts to purify political life, and resigned his seat in disgust in

1797. He was, however, prevailed on by his friends to again enter Parliament, and at the period of the union being then member for Galway, he particularly distinguished himself by his strenuous opposition to that measure.

In 1801 he was returned to the first Imperial Parliament for the Borough of Wicltlow ; and it is remarkable that though the reputation he brought with him from Ireland was exceeded by some of his contemporaries, he was considered in England the .

ablest and most eloquent of the Irish members. On the forma- fi

tion of. the Fox-Grenville Ministry in 1806 he was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, but retired within a year. His next seat was for the Borough of Tavistock, for which he was elected in 1808, and in the same year he attained what may be called the crowning point in his career, for he became the, leader of the Opposition, a character which he retained until his death in 1817. Like the great Chatham he may be said to have died in the service of his country, for he was seized with a fit while attending to his duties in the Commons, and passed away on the eighth day following.

Lord Tyrone (a) £1 3,000 per annum. Beresford, John (b) ; no estate in the County, except a small free-

hold given by his brother. Less than £100 by the year. Osborne, Sir Willicwz (c) ; Representative for Dungarvan. £2,000 Carew, Robert (d) , of Snowhill, County Kilkenny, the other member, ,

now only £300 ; on the death of his father Thomas Carew, of Ballynamona will have . . £1,000

Gisborne, Coll. (e), for Lismore, no estate in the county. (a) The second Earl, who was created Marquess of Waterford,

19th August, 1798. (b) The Right Hon. John Beresford, a younger brother of the first

Marquess of Waterford, one of the most influential men in Ireland. (G) The Right Hon. Sir William Osborne, seventh Baronet, of Newtown

Anner, M.P. for Carysfort 1761-8, and for Dungarvan 1776-83. He died in October, 1783.

(d) Robert Thomas Carew, of Ballinamona, High Sheriff 1779, who - was born 1747, and died 1834. He probably rented Snowhill on his marriage in 1771 to Frances, daughter of Thomas Boyse, of Bishop's Hall, County Kilkenny, and occupied it till he succeeded to his paternal estate.

(e) Third son of the Revd. James Gisborne, Rector of Staveley, Derby- shire ; Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot ; sometime Governor of Charle- mont ; and subsequently a Lieut.-General in the army. He sat for Lismore as nominee of the Duke of Devonshire. General Gisborne resided a t South Park, County Roscommon, but died in England on 4th March, 1778 (see also Hunt's "Irish Parliament," p. 23).

Sit.. Henry Cave~zdislz ( f ) ; n o estate in the county.

C a m , Cull. (g), for Tallow, n o estate.

Lysaglzt, of Cztrryglass (lz) , the o tber nleinber, n o estate.

Vigiers, L O Y ~ (i) ; cousin t o Lord Chatham, married in England @,000

&Iny, Sir James (k) '; related t o the Tyrone fanlily and exclusive

of his collectioi~ has £1,500

Coqyvve, Jo lz~ , of Mo%tnt Cougwve (1) ; married t o Miss Usher ; of the Independent Interest . fT2,OOO

St. St. Leger (m) E1,800

Duke Devo~zslzit/e in the County W a t e r f o ~ d , ' abou t £8,000. His o ther estates in this kingdom k16,000, a rising estate , and in England, including his Irish estate between 40 and 50 thousand,

in England k30,OOO

Keily, Richard, of Lismore (9.t) ; married t o a Miss Usher. £3,000

Keily, Jolzn, of TyrcuZlerl.c (0) ; married to Miss Bagwell, sister to John Bagwell, j uiii-. jtT1,OOO

Gunzbleto~z, Richard @), of Castle~iclzmd, was iiiarried t o Miss Conner, sister t o the Duke of Devonshire's agent. &1,800

( f ) Sir Henry Cavendish, M.P. for Lismore, created a Baronet in 1755, mas, ancestor of Lord Waterparlr. He lived in Kildare Street, Dublin, and diecl on 31st May, 1776.

(g) Colonel Hugh Cane, Lieut-Col. of the 5th Dragoons. (h)~~Nicholas Lysaght, of Curryglass, County Limericlr, comnlonly

callcd Governor Lysaght," nephcw of John, first Lord Lisle. He represented this borough from 1768 till his death, which occurred in March, 1782.

(i) George Mason Villiers, Viscount Villiers of Dromana, afterwards second Earl of Granclison, whose daughter and heiress married Lord Henry Stuart. His mother, Lady Elizabeth TTilliers, created Viscountess Villiers and Countess of Grandison in her own right, was wife of Aland John Mason, M.P., and only child and heiress of John Villiers, Earl Grandison, whose sister, Harriet, wife of Robert Pitt, was mother of the celebrated Earl of Chatham,

(k) Sir James May, Bart., so created 1763, High Sheriff of County Waterford 1752, and M.P. 1759-98, was son of James Rlaj~, of Mayfield, by the Hon. Letitia Ponsonby, daughter oi Viscount Duncannon.

( I ) High Sheriff of County Waterford 1755 ; married 1758 Mary, daughter of Beverle)~ Usshcr, of ICilmeaden, County TVaterford. His second son, Ambrose, was great-grandfather of the present John Congrevc, of lNount Congreve.

(wz) St. Leger Aldworth, ACP. for the Borough of Doneraile 1761-76, assumed the surnamc of St. Lcger in 1766 on succeeding to the estates of his uncle, Hayes, fourth Viscount Doneraile. He repeatedly solicited a peerage which he obtained in 1776, when he was created Baron Doneraile. The Viscounty mas revived in his favour nine years later.

(n) Richard Keily, of Strancally Castle, near Lismore, married Sarah, daughter of Arthur Ussher, of Cappagh,

(o) His wife was a daughter of John Bagwell, of Kilmore, County Tip- '

perary, and co~lsin of Xargaret Bagwcll, who married Richard Keily, of Strancally, in 1800.

( p ) He married 1743 Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Conner, of Bandon.

Jackson, Rowland, of Glanbeg, Garde, Thomas (q), Attorney, near £300 Musgrave, Christopher (r), in estate and leases, &3,800 Illusgrave, John (s), his son, of Ballyen, married to Miss Keily, £400 illusgrave, Richard (t), eldest son to Christopher, a la\vyer. Musgrave, Richard (u) , of Saltabridge, brother to Christopher, £1,200 Mz~sgrave, Richard, the younger, son to the former, £600

NoTE-T~~ Musgraves and Keilys are connected and in the same interest. Moore, of Sapertown (v) ; Brother to Lord Mountcashell. Odle, John (w), of &fount Odle, married to Christopher Musgrave's

Daughter, £1,200 Keily, Richard, of Knockalara, married to a Miss Crotty, a Papist,

£500 Brow&g, Samuel (x) , of A fane, connected with the Musgraves,

in leases for ever, £400 Keane, John, of Bellmount (y), a Minor, his mother, a Miss Green,

now married to Tom Bunbury, a Clergyman, -&l,OOO Keane, llichael, a minor, brother to John Keane, £600 Green, Michael, of Millnamzck, married to a Miss Bunbury, went

with the Tyrone Interest, L900 Middleton, Lord ( z ) , went with the Tyrone, £2, 000

(q) He was of Garryduff, County Waterford ; married 1'761 Mary Anne, second daughter of Jeffrey Prendergast.

(r) Of Tourin, County Waterford. (s) John Musgrave, of Bnllyin, second son of Christopher, of Tourin,

married Frances, daughter oi Richard Keily, of Lismore, and d.s.p. May, 1800. (t) M.P. for Lismore 1778-1800 ; created a Baronet 2nd December,

1782, with remainder to the male issue of his father. He was High Sheriff of County Waterford 1786 ; married 20th December, 1780, Deborah, daughter of Sir Henly Cavendish, Bart., and d.s.p. 6th April, 1818.

(u) From his daughter Janet, wife of Anthony Chearnley, descends the present Henry Philip Chearnley, of Salterbridge.

(v) Hon. William Moore, of Sapperton, M.P. for Clogher 1765-76. He married Anne, daughter and heiress of Dudley Fowlres, and died 21st Nov- ember, 1810.

(w) John Odell, of Mount Odell, who died in 1783. ( x ) Samuel Browning, of Affane, County Waterford, who died in 1783,

was son of Valentine Browning, of Affane, who was second son of Major Edmund Browning, by Mary, daughter and heiress of Valentine Greatralces (or Gratorex), so celebrated for his wonderful power of healing by touch.

(y) Sir John Keane, Bart., of Belmont, County Waterford, M.P. for Bangor 1791-7, Youghal 1798-1800, and 1801-1807, Bangor 1807-18, who was created a Baronet 1st August, 1801.

(z) George, fourth Viscount Midleton.

Fortescue, Lord, (an) an English Peer, went with ditto. Connected with the Grandison Interest, £2,000

Gveen, William (bb), of Killmanahin, his estate sold. Walsh, Thomas, o / Woodstock, connected with the Carews. E1,000 Usher, Beverley (cc), of Canty, was married to a Miss Roach, sister

to Capt. Luke Roach, £600 Roach, Lztke, (dd) Capt., of Scartleagh, brother-in-law to the former,

£300 Coghlan, John, of Carricklea, grandnephew to old Richard Keily,

married to a Miss Keilly, £500 Bag, George, of Dromore, his wife a Papist, £400 FiLzGernld, Thomas, fiajor, made a fortune in the East Indies,

worth between twenty and thirty thousand pounds, married to Miss Strahan, connected with the Musgraves.

Boate, George, of Dztcksfiool, in the Osborne Interest, £500 McGuire, Arthur (ee), Six Clerk, bought Lord Glerawly's estate,

will in 3 or 4 years, a t &l,ZOOa Sherlock, Paul, of Bzttlerstown, £1,500 Wall, James, of Cool:zamuck @), married to a relation of Lord

Desart, £1,500 Power, William, of Gwteen (gg) , £1,200 Quarry, John, of Johnstown, in the Gralldison Interest, £500 Pomeroy, Arthw (hh), a Member of Parliament, in this county, l350 White, John, of ~ h h e j o r t , his daughter married to Ambrose Lane,

attorney, &SO0 Carew, Shnplmzd (ii) . Power, Richard, o/ Clnshmoye (kk), married to a daughter of Shqp-

land Carew, &1,200

(an) Matthew, second Lord Fortescue. (bb) William Greene, of Kilmanahan, was High Sheriff 1763 ; married

1764 his cousin Letitia, daughter and heiress of Nuttall Greene, of Low Grange, County Kilkenny .

(cc) He married first, 1750, Melian, daughter of James Roche, of Glynn, County Waterford, and second' Mary, daughter of Ambrose Congreve, of Mount Congreve.

(dd) He died in 1781. (ae) He was afterwards a Master in Chancery, and died June, 1810. (ff) James William Wall, of Coolnamuck, who died 16th October, 1819. (gg) He was High Sheriff in 1784, and d.s,p. in 1313. (hh) 'Afterwards Viscount Harberton. (ii) Of Castleboro, County Wexford, M.P. for Wateriord 1741-76,

ancestor of Lord Carcw. (kk) High Sheriff, 1764.

Christmas, Willianz, of ~~lzitf idd (ll), in the Tyrone Interest, nearly related to the present Lord, L3,OOO

Wortlzivill, Ambrose, of Amberlzill (?~zan), married to a Miss Dobbyn, niece to the old Recorder Dobbyn, £GOO

Lee, Bolto?~, of TVatelfford (nlz), married to a Miss Usher, Congreve's sister-in-law, Q , O O O

Ne'iuport, Sinzofz, Banker, (00) married to another sister, £800 Uwzble, Clzarles (pfi), married to a Miss Shannahan, niece to Newport,

will be £1,000 Bolto~z, ~Conzelius, of Faitlzleg (qq), Menlbei- for Waterford (married)

to a Miss Barker, of Waterford, £1,200 Portev, Thomas, of Ballydrisla?ze, man-ied to the daughter of Richard

Kearizey, of Waterford, £500 Dobbyn, Hamibal, of Bally?zakill. nephew to the old Recorder, £800 Kenfzedy, Clzarles, of Joh~zstow+z (rr), County Dublin, son to Kennedy

the Attorney, has in this County,' £1,500 ICe?z?zedy, Edward (ss) , his brother, £300 Power, Richard, of Garranmorris (tt) , a papist, £1,200 Duckett, Riclzard, of Wlzitestow~z, Tyrone Interest. @OO Englislz, Andrew, of Mensborough; married to a Miss Musgrave,

about £300 Bag, John, of Ardmore, no connections, £500 BarTzard, of P~fosfiect Hall (uu), lives mostly in London, besides a

large estate in other places, has in this county Q,OOO

(22) High Sheriff 1756. (nzm) A Stephen Wovtkavale, of Amberhill, was High Sheriff in 1773. ( w z ) High Sheriff, 1769. (00) He was father of the Right Hon. Sir John Newport, Bart., but

according to Burke's "Peerage" he married Elizabeth, daughter of William Riall, of Clonmel, and not Miss Ussher.

( p p ) Captain Charles Hunzble, who led the forlorn hope a t the storming of Quebec. He was great-grandfather of Sir John Nugent Nugent, third Baronet.

(qq) High Sheriff 1778. (w) He died in 1788, when he was succeeded by his younger brother

Edward (q.v.) (ss) High Sheriff of County Dublin in 1791 ; ancestor of Sir John Charles

Kennedy, fourth Bart. (tt) Father of Elizabeth, wife of John O'Shee, of Shcestown, County

Kilkenny, and ancestor of the late Nicholas Richard Power O'Shee, of Gardenmorris.

(uu) Stephen Bernard, of Prospect Hall, was M.P. for Bandon 1727-57.

CoghZmz, Hewy, 01 A d o e (vv), married to a Widow Lindsay, of the County Tiyperary, nephew to the late Revd. Henry Coghlan (in the Tyrone Interest), £300

Mowis, TVillianz (ww), o/ TVnterford, has in this county and in the County IGlltenny £3,000

Lackey, Jolzlz, married to a Miss Chadwicli, E200

(vv) Hi& Sheriff 1776. (ww) He married Martha, daughter of liicl~ard Reade, of Rossenara,

County Kilkenny.

Scraps of Walsh Mountain H istory

(From the Papers of V. HUSSEY WALSH, Esq.)

No. 6 .

Edited by Very Rev. W. CANON CARRIGAN, D.D., M.R.I.A.

OCUMENTS extracted from a MS. entitled " Munimenta quaedam de antiqua et longe deducta propagine Walsheorum ex certissimae auctoritatis archivis, Petri Walshei, de Belline,,armigero, rogatu, per humilliinum et observantissiinum servum, T;V? Lynch excerpta. MDCCCXIX."

.A. This ~ndentur; made the 17th day of March, in the yeare of our Lord God, 1632, between Robert

ffanning, of Croanbege (a), in the county of Killienny, gentleman, of the one part, & Edmund Walshe fitz Roberte, of Castlehyle, gent'e- man,& Theobald Purcel1,of Kilkirryhill (b), in the said county, gentleman, of the other part, Witnesseth that the said Robert ffanninge, for certain considerations him thereunto moving, hath demised, sett, and to farme lett as by these presents he doth demise, sett, and to farme lett unto the said Ednlund Walsh c'r; Theobald Purcell all and singular the Towns, lands, tenements, messuages, moores, meadows, woods, mountaynes & underwoods of Croanbege, in the county Kilkenny aforesaid, with all and singular the uses, como- dities, emoluments and profits unto the same belonginge or in

(a) NOW' Croan, beside Aghavillar Church. (b) Now Kilcurl, near Knocktopher.

any wyse appertaininge : To have and to hold the said Croanbege with jts appurtenances unto the said Edmund & Theobald from the feast of Easter nexte & ilnlnediatcly ensuinge the date hereof for and duringe the tcrme of 31 yeares then next following, fully to be completed and ended, yealdinge and payinge for and out of the same, unto the said Robert, his heirs & assigns, sixpence sterleinge, to the use & for the mayntenailce and relief of his well and dearly beloved wife Gilis ffanninge alias Purcell, if shee, the said Gilis shall live soe longe. Provided alwayes that uyon yay- ment or delyvery of one grain of wheate by the said Robarte ~ ~ n t o the said Edmund & Theobald, or to any of them, that then the present lease shall surcease & be merely voide & of noe effect, and the said Robarte and his heirs shall warrant & defend the, saide Towne and laizdes of Croanbege, with their appurtenances, to the uses above mentioned unto the said Edinoizcl Walsh & Theobald Purcell dureing the aforesaide terrne of 31 years against all men in manner aforesaid by these presents I n witness whereof the said Robert ffanninge, Edinond Walsh, and Theobald Purcell* have hereunto Jaied their seals and st~bscribecl their names the day and year aforesaid.

Robert ffanning, Edmond Walsh, Theobald Butler. Being present at the sealing and delivery those whose names,

ensue, L

Richard Comerforcl, Laurencc Power, Thoinas Conlerfoi-d,. Peirce Walsh.

(Ex Inquisitione in Coinitatu Iiillcenniensi cayta tempore Caroli primi & nunc de Recordo in Officio Rot~dorum remanente).

B. Bee i t t known unto alle men by the's presents that we, Patrick Den, of Grenan, in the COY of Iiilkenny, Esquire, and Robert Walsh fitz Phillip of Tomard, gentleman, feoffees in trust. to the use of said Patrick, have given, granted & confirmed, and by theise presents doe give, grante, and confirn~ unto Edinond Butler, of Powlestoune, in the county of Kilkenny aforesaid, Esquire, Theobald Butler fitz James, of Derreloskan, j11 the county of Tipperary, gentleman, and Piers Kyfe of Rowestowne (c) in the county of Kilkenny aforesaid, husbandman, all and singular the manner, Towns, messuages, mills, lands, tenements, meadows,

(c) Now Ballyroe, near Thomastown. .

pastures, woods & underwoods, rents, revertions & services, with theii-e appurtenances, of and in Grenan in said county I<illtenny, one of which lnessuages of the said five inessuages doe lie in Crokett- sti-eete, and another inessuage of the said ffive inessuages cloth lye near Hugh Boyesgate (d), and the rents and services belonging to the said manor of Grenan in Thomastowii ; & allsoe all the Towns, inessuages, lands, tenements 8. hereditamei~ts with their appurtenances of Smythestowne, Rowestowne, Newhouse, Lawestowne (s) and Blaltesland, in the said county of Iiilltenny ; and also all the Mannor, towns, lands, tenements, with their appurtenances of Iliilcrone, Old haggard, Milto\vne, Iliilpipe, Eallylteoghane,

*

&/Iullenebrohie, Dirremon, Rosenan, and all Denslands in Kilbleine, all lying and being in the said county of Iliilltenny, and the rent and revertion of all and singular the premises : To have and to hold all and singular the premises with their appurtenances unto the said Edmund Butler, Theobald Butler & ~ e i r s Kyfe, their heirs and assignes for ever, to be holden of .the chiefe Lorde of the ffee 'by the service due and of right accustoined. A.nd I the said Patrick Den, nly hei& & assignes against all men, and I the said Robert Walsh against inyselfe and my heii-es & assignes and all and every person and persons claymeinge by us or under our estate and title all and singular the premises with their appurtenances, shall warrant, acquit and defend to the said Edinund, Theobald and Peirs theire heires & assignes by these presentS. And k n ~ w yee that we the said Pa.ti-ick Den R. Robert Walsh have nzade, constituted and appointed our well beloved in Christ, Edward fitz Gerrald, of the city of Iiilltenny, yeoman, our true and lawful atturney to enter into the preinises or into any part or parcel thereof in the naine of the whole and possession and seizin of them to take thein for us and in our name possession and livery of seizin of the premises or of any part or parcel thereof in the naine of the whole to deliver unto the s.aid Edmund Butler, Theobald Butler, R. Peirs Kyfe or to any of them in the name of thein all to inure to them their heires and assignes accordinge the intente and purport of this presente and whatsoever our said atturney shall doe in the delivery of the possession and seizin, aforesaid, wee doe hereby ratifie and confirine the same. In witness wl~ereoff

(d) Now the well known Gatlraebwee (seam doda buibe) i.e., the Gate of Hugh boy or Yellow Hugh.

(e) Lavistown.

we the said Patrick Denn and Robert Walsh have hereunto put our seales and subscribed our names the 2nd day of September in the year of our Lord God, 1627.

(Ex Inquisitionibus in Comitatu Killrenniensi captis & nunc de recordo in' Officio rotulorum remanentibus).

C. This Indenture made the 8:!' day of June in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand SLY hundred and eighteen, between John Walsh of Barrybeaghy ( f ) , in the County of Kilkenny, gentleman, of the one part, and Richard Waton of the Citie of Xillrenny, gentleman, Thomas Everson, of Urny, in the county of Xillrenny [recte Carlow], gentleman, and David Tobyn, of Leyrakh, in the county of Kilkenny, gentleman, of the other part, Witnesseth that he the said John hath given, graunted and confirmed and by these presents he doth give, graunt, and confirme unto the said Richard, Thomas and David all the towns, hainletts, messuages, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments of and in Barbeahy, Tybbrecl, Grauntestowne, Parlrestowne, Gorthaule, Xilmooke, Hamocksyowne near Lucltenshall (g), Henriestowne [h) , and Gortane[tu]britt near Tumpellagh, all lying and being in the Baronye or Cantrede of Everlre alias Iverke in the county of Kilkenny, and the rents and revertions of all the premises with their appurtenances : To have and to hold all and singular the premises mentioned to be graunted by these presents, with their appurtenances, unto the said Richard Waton, Thomas Everson and David Tobyn, their heires and assignes for ever, of the chief lords of the fee by the services due and of right acc~~stomed to the uses hereunder expressed, viz., to the use of the said John Walsh and of his executors & assigns for and during the tenn of three score and one year from the feast of Easter last past before the date of theise presents fully to be cornpleated and ended. The remainder to the use of William Walsh, soun and heire apparent of the said John, and of thc heires males of his body lawfully to be forgotten ; and for lack of such heires males to the use of Richard Walsh, second son of the said John and of the heires males of his body lawfully begotten and to

( f ) Now Rarrrabehy, Mooncoin. (g) The great cromlech of teac AN SCAA in Hal-ristown, parish of Tem-

pleorum. (h) Harristown,

be begotten ; and for lack of such heires males to the use of Oliver, third sour1 of the said John, and of the heires males of his body lawfuily to be begotten ; and for laclte of such heires males to the use of the heires males of the body of the said John Walsh lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for lacke of such heires males to the use of the heires females of the body of the said John lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for lacke of such heires females to the use of James Walsh, brother of the said John, and of the heirs males of the body of the said James lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for lacke of such heires males to the use of Edinund Walsh, another brother of the said John and of the heires males of the body of the said Edinund lawfully to be begotten; and for laclte of such heirs males to the use of the right heires of the said John Walsh for ever. Provided alwaies and it is the true intent & meaning of the said parties to these presents notwithstanding anything aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for the saide John Walsh froin time to time & duringe his natural life by his dede or ~vrytynge duly perfected by him in his lifetynie in presence of three honest & sufficient men at the least, to alter, determine, diminish, change, abridge, or enlarge all or any the said use and uses, estates and intents lymitted in theise presents as aforesaide of and in the said towns, hamlets, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments mentioned to be granted as aforesaid by theise presents or of any part or parcel1 of the same and alsoe by the same deede or wrytynge to be duly perfected by the said John in his lyfetyme as aforesaid to lymit & appoint, give and grante, the use or uses of the said towns, hamlets, lands, tenements and hereditaments, with their appurtenances, or of any part or parcel thereof to the person or persons aforesaid or to any. of them oq to any other person or persons in simple fee tayle for tearme of lyfe or lgves or yeares or othei-wise and that after such alteration, determination, kc . , any use or uses or intents of the premises or of any part or parcel1 thereof as aforesaid the only use of soe much of the premises whereof any alteration, determination or enlarging shall be so had & made and shall be to such person and persons uses and interests as are mentioned or specified in the said deede or wryteinge duely to be perfected by the said John and said John and his heirs shall warrant, acquit, and defend all and singular

the premises mentioned to be graunted by these presents as aforesaid, with their appurtenances unto the said Richard Waton, Thonias Everson & David Toby11 and their heirs and assignes against all nianner of people to the uses aforesaid by these yresei~ts. And further this Indenture witnesseth that the said John Walsh hat11 delivered full and peacable possession and sei& of all and singular the premises unto the said Richard MTaton, Thomas Ever- son and David Tobyn, with his the said John's proper hands : To have and to hold unto the said Richard Waton, Thomas Everson gnd David Tobyn theire heires and assigiles to the uses and in manner aforesaid by theise presents according to the true meaning

/' and tenor hereof.

(-E charta in Officio Rotuloruili nunc de record0 remanente.)

D. Bee i t t kno~vn unto all men by these presents that wee Peirs Walsh fitz Edmond of Kilmanahin, in the county of Killtenny, gentleman, soune and heire of Edmond Walsh fitz Walter late deceased, and Gerald fitz ~ e w i s Bi-yan of Roski-ea, in the county of Tipperary, gentleman, surviving feoffee, in trust, to the use of the said Peirs, have given, granted St confirnled, and by these pi-esents doe give, graunt e and confirine unto Theobald Butler of Cloghoge in the Queen's County, gentleinan, Edinond Walsh fitz Robert of Castlehoyle in the county of ICilkenny, gentleman, Redmond fitz Nicholas, of Waterford, gent., and Nicholas Nash of the Newhouse, near Gauran in the said county of ICillrenny, Esq., the thirde part of the tounes, lands, hereditaments, Src., ~7itl1 the appurtenances, of Owninge alias Bewly, in the said county of - ICillrenny, and the thirde part of the toune, lands, tenements and hereditaments of ffanniizgstoune, in the said county, and the rent ana revertion of them and of every of them : To have and to hold all and singular the said two parts [viz. the said third part] of the toune and lands of Owning and the said third part of ffan- ningstoune, with their appurtenances, unto the said Theobald Butler, Ednlond Walsh, Redinond fitz Nicholas Gerald and Nicholas Nash, their heirs and assignes, for ever, to be holden of the cheefe lord of the fee by the services due and of right accustomed, to the use of the s!! Peirs Walsh dureing his life, and after his death to the use and behooffe of his wife Ellen Walsh fitz Gerald dureing

her life in full recompense & satisfaction of any dower ,or third part that she may challenge or clayme of all or any the lands and tenements whereof the said Peirs is seized of an estate of inheritance in use or possession, and after her death to the use and behooff of the heirs male of the body of mee the said Peirs begotten and to be begotten ; and for want of such heyrs male to the use and behoofe of the heires male of my father EdmondWalsh,late deceased, and the heirs male of the body of such heyers male begotten or to be begotten ; and for want of such heyres male to the use of the heyres male of the body of my grandfather [Walter Walsh] begotten and to be begotten ; and for want of such heyres males to the use of the heyres males of the body of my great-grandfather Robert Walsh begotten ; and for want of such heyres to the use of the right heyres of my said grandfather for ever. And I the said Peirs Walsh and my heirs against all men, and I the said Gerald fftz Lewis Bryan, against myself, my heirs and assignes, and all and every person and persons claiming by us, shall warrant and defend all and singular the premises, with the app~?,rtenances, unto the said Theobalcl Butler, Edmond Walsh fitz Robert, Redmoncl fitzNicholas, Nicholas Nash, their heires and assignes for ever to the use aforesaid by these presents, and further know ye that wee the said Peirs Walsh & Gerald fitz Lewes Bryan have made, constituted and appointed our well beloved in Christ, Nicholas fitz Patrick Gerald of Gurtines, in the County of Killtenny, gentleman, our true and lawful attorney to enter into the premises or into part or parcel thereof in the name of the whole and take possession and seizin thereof for us and in our name and after such entry made and possession and seizin thereof soe had and taken then for us and in our names possession and liverye and seizin of the premises or of any part thereof in the name of all to deliver unto the said Theobald Butler, Edmund Walsh, Redinond fitz Nicholas Gerald & Nicholas Nash or to any of them in the name of them all according thentent and purport of this deed ratifying and hereby allowing whatsoever our said attorney shall do in the delivery of the possession and seizin aforesaid by these presents. In witness whereof wee the said Peirs Walsh & Gerald fitz Lewes Bryen have hereunto put our seales the fifth day of April in the year your Lord God, one thousand six hundred twenty and eight'.

Peirs Walsh, Gerald fitz Lewes Bryan, kc., &c.

E. This Indenture made i11 the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and eighteene on the sixteenth day of November, and in the sixteenth yeare of the reign of our sovereign Lord King James of his realms of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the two and fiftieth, Betwixt the Right Honour- able Richard Butler, Lord Viscount Mountgarrett, Lucas Shee of the Upper Court, in the County of IGlkenny Esquire, John Rooth fitz Piers of the cittie of Milkenny, merchant, Janies fitz Harryes of New rosse in the county of Wexford, merchant, and Robert Walsh fitz Phillipp, of Hilltowne (i), in the said county of Kilkenny, gent., of the one part, and Vincent Nashpole, of Pottlerath, in the county of Kilkenny, gent., and Francis Marshall of Ballyne, in the said county, of the other part : Witnesseth that the said Richard, Lord Viscount Mountganett, Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes, and Robert Walsh, have given, granted and confirmed, and by these presents they give, p a n t and confirme unto the said Vincent Nashpole and ffrancis Marshall all and singular the lordships, mannors, castles, towns, villadges, hamlets, meses, cottadges, lofts, mylles, dovehouses, gardins, meadows, pastures, leasnes, woods, underwoods, waters, watercourses, weares, fishings, warrens, conigars, heaths, rnoores, and all other tenements and hereditaments whatsoever of and [in] Ballyn alias Ballyeyn, Baggodstown, Tafeghry alias Tyfecliny, Clonytibred, ~eiraghes, Monemc W i I h oge, Haylballyboe, Dowrode, Graige, Ballyrin, Lisdowny, Keylferiltin, Garrymore, Lisdarragh, Cloghmantagh, ,

Garrynemean, Ballynvarry, and the mill and lands of Bally- foile ( j ) neere ffidowne, in the county of Kilkenny, and of and in Tibberactny, lyeinge in the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary in any or either of them, and also all the meses, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, which the said -Lord Viscount hath or which the said Lucas, John, James and Robert have or any of them hath to the use of the said Lord Viscount in Ines'tyoge in the county of Kilkenny, and the rent and revercion of all and singular the premises mencioned to be granted by these presents : To have and to hold all and singular the premises with their appurtenances unto the said Vincent Nashpoole and ffrances Marshall

(i) Now Ballyltnoclt, near Lismatigue. ( j ) Now Piltown.

and their heires and assignes to be holden of the chief lord of the fee by the services due and of right accustomed to the use of the said Richard, Lord Viscount, and of the Right Honourable Dame Elizabeth, his wife, now Viscountesse Mountgarrett and to the use of the survivor of them during the natural life of the survivor of them. as a jointure for the said Dame Elizabeth in liewe and of full recompense of her dower of the said Lord Viscount's lands, tenements St hereditaments wherein he hat11 any state of inheritance. The remainder to the use of the heirs males of the body of the said Lord Viscount lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for lack of such heires males to the use of the heires males of Edmond Butler late Lord [Viscount, father] of the said Richard now Lord Viscount, lawfully begotten and to be' begotten ; and for lack of such heirs males, the remainder to the use of the heirs males of the Right Honorb!? Richard Butler, knight, late Lord Viscount of Mountgarret, grandfather of the said Richard now Lord. Viscount, lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for lacke of such heirs males to the use of the heirs males of the body of Piers Butler, late Earl of Ormonde, great-grandfather of the said now Lord Viscount ; and for lacke of such heirs males to the use of the right heirs of the said Richard now Lord Viscount for ever. Provided always that whensoever (after the decease of the said Dame Elizabeth) the said Richard, now Lord Viscount of Mountgari-ett, or his heirs, or the said Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes and Robert Walshe or any of them shall deliver unto the said Vincent Nashpoole or Francis Marshall or to the heirs of any of them, or unto the Lord Byshopp of Ossory that is or shalbe for tyme beinge, or unto the Mayor or cheefe officer of the cittie of Killcenny which now is or hereafter shalbe for the tyine being one grayne of wheate, then this estate shall cease and be voyde, and it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Richard now Lord Viscount Mountgarret, Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes and Robert Walshe and their heirs to enter into the premises rnencioned to be granted by those presents and the same to have, hold and enjoye, anything herein contayned or the Liverye of seisin thereuppon made or to be made to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided also that this estate and the said. use limited to the said Dame Elizabeth shall cease and be voyde & it shall and may be lawful to and for

tlie said Richard now Lord Viscount & his heyres and to and for the said Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes and Robert Walsh and their heyres to enter into the said premises and to llould the same in their former estate, tytle and interest, if the said Dame Elizabeth or any other in her right or to her use shall hereafter recover dower or advisedly presequnt to judgment any wrytte of dower 01- other action by bill, playnt, or otherwise for any other part of the lands or inheritance of the said Lord Viscount, saving the premises limited to her use by these presents, and saving so much as may countervayle in yearly value any parcel1 or parcells of the said preinises that shall happen to be evicted against her or lawfully taken 01- detayned from her without her own default (in case any eviction, taking or detainer shall so happen), and likewise saving such parcel1 and parcells as the said Lord Viscount shall hereafter voluntarily assure and convey or cause to be assured and conveyed unto her or unto her use, and saving the moyetie of the said now Lord Viscount's lands, tenements, and hereditaments in New Rosse and in tlie liberty and burgagcry thereof (which now do stand in morgage) , which inoyetie the said Lord Viscount did agree and promise to convey and pass to her use during her life as an acldicion to her said joynture if .

the said inorgage shall happen to be acquitt in her lifetime, anything in these presents contained and the livery of seisin thereuypon made or to be'inade to the contrary notwithstanding ; and the said Lord Viscount for him, his heirs, and Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes and Robert Walsh, for them and their heirs and assignes respectively do covenant and grant to and with the said Vincent Nashpoole and Francis Marshall and their heirs and assignes that it shall and may be lawful to and for them and for such person and persons as the said Dame Elizabeth shall appoint from time to time during her life (from and after the decease of the said Lord Viscount) to have, cut, take and carry away with them and every of them in and from the lands & woods of IGlmenocke ( k ) and Bally- vooly ( I ) , in the said County of IGlkenny sufficient fewel and firewood to be used & spent in the said Lord Viscount's now cheefe bouse in Inestyoge aforesaid only for the use and provision of the said Dame Elizabeth when and as often and during such time &

(k) Now I<ilmynick. (1) Now Ballyvoole.

times as shee shall dwell or abyde in Inestyoge aforesaid, and when and as often as any of her servants shalbe employed by her to make provision for her use or against her coming thither with egresse and regresse for men and carryadge horses and garrans and other means of carryadge to be used for that purpose only to the use aforesaid into, from and upon the aforesaid lands and woods of Kilmenocke and Ballyvooly from time to time as often as occasion shall require. And the said Richard, Lord Viscount, and his heirs against all manner of people ; and the said Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes and Robert Walshe and their heirs only against themselves and all others claiming by them respectively, shall warrant, acquit. & defend the said premises unto the said Vincent .Nashpoole & Francis Marshall & their heirs & assignes upon the condicions & to the uses aforesaid by these presents, saving unto such person and persons as do hould any part or parcel1 of the premises by lease for years from his Lordship at this present their several interests for years according to the purport of their said leases respectively. And the said Richard Lord Viscount Mountgarrett, Lucas Shee, John Rooth fitz Piers, James fitz Harryes and Robert Walsh have made, constituted and appointed their well beloved in Christ, Adrian Lucas, of Ballyn aforesaid, their true and lawful attorney for them and in their names to enter into the premises mencioned to be granted by these presents or into any part or several parts thereof in name of all, and after such entry thereof 01- of any part or several parts thereof (in the name of all) possession & seisin to deliver unto the said Vincent Nashpoole & Francis Marshall or unto any of them in name of both or unto their lawful attorney or attorneys in that behalf : To have and to hold under them and their heirs in manner aforesaid and to the uses and upon condicion aforesaid ratifying & allowing all and whatsoever their said attorney shall do in the premises accor.dingly. In witness whereof the said parties have to these indentures interchangeable put their seales the day & year first above written. Mountgarrett. Lucas Shee. John Rooth fitz Piers. James fitz

Harryes. Rob Walshe.

(To be co?ztinz,ted.)

PHILIP BARRON'S CORRESPONDENCE.

Edited by seanws un cdsAme.

H E t~7o following hitherto unpublished letters are i copied from an MS. (12. N. 11) jn the Royal Irish

Academy. The first is addressed to "Miles John O'Rcilly, Esq., ~ e a t h House, Queen's County," and is in the rare autograph of Philip F. Barron, the founder of the Irish College near Bonmahon, %o. Waterford, and may probably be taken as typical of ' the letters which he addressed to various people

interested in the study of the Irish language and literature. Ex- tracts from some of the replies which Barron received are printed on the covers of his "Ancient Ireland" (1835).

SIR, Tho not having the Honour of being in any way known to

you, I take the liberty of addressing from having accidentally heard that you are an enthusiastic admirer of the Irish Language and of Irish Historical Literature. I am myself, what may perhaps be called an enthusiast on this subject, and have therefore derived much pleasure from hearing that a person of your rank takes an interest in this much neglected but rich field of literature. I feel it but candid to state to you that I myself belong to a family that may perhaps be considered of some rank and respectability, I have spoken the Irish from my infancy and by my own per- severance I now read and write it. I presume that you probably do the same. If you allow me the Honour of a correspondence I shall feel much pleasure in cominunicating the state of the Irish

Language and literature in this part of Ireland. And I would feel most obliged by hearing either are cultivated to any extent in your Province-as I believe the Language is less spoken in Leinster than in any .other part of Ireland. The points upon which I would be anxious for information are

Whether the Language is generally spoken thro your province ? Whether it is at all generally read or written ? Whether you happen to know of any Irish Manuscripts or

Books ? Whether you are in correspondence with or know of any of

the Societies established in Scotland for the cultivation of the Gaelic or Erse Language. and literature-and who are the corresponding Secretaries of those Societies.

And finally what your ideas may be with respect to the practicability of reviving or cultivating the ancient and rich and powerful Language of our Native Country.

Hoping you will excyse the liberty I have thus taken. J' have the Honour to be

Your obt Humble Svt PHILIP F. BARRON,

SEAFIELD, C?. WATERFORD, Nod. ~ 7 ~ 2 /33. P.S.--If you should do me the Honour of a rep1y;please direct

under cover to H. W. Barron, Esq!: M.P.,

Belmont House, Waterford. The reply is in the autograph of Myles John O'Reilly,

who is best remembered as the kind friend and patron of John O'Donovan in the earlier part of his career. The letter itself is of interest in giving an account of the condition of the Irish language in Leinster at the time.

CLUB HOUSE, KILDARE ST., DUBLIN, Dee" 3:f 1833.

To Philip F. Barron, Esq': Seafield,

C?. Waterford. DEAR SIR,

I have had the Honor to receive your Letter of Nov!. 27th introducing yarn-self to me, on the subject of your attachment to

the study, of our old Irish Literature and Language : and request- ing such information, as it might be within my power to afford on the several enquiries mentioned in your Letter.

I shall have very great pleasure in evincing, so far as I can, my disposition to reciprocate your wishes, for -a correspondence on a subject, in which we feel a common interest : regretting only that I am so little qualified to do so with an equal advantage to you.

I an1 not, in fact, an Irish Scholar. My early education and habits were not favourable, to vernacular adoption of our Native Language. My schoolboy days were passed, almost entirely in England : and subsequent opportunities were not such as to be favourable in any degree, to acquire : either the speaking or reading of the Irish. I t is, in fact, not more than a very few years ; since accident, rather than selected purpose, made me feel an interest- of any extent-on that subject, and the necessary Cares and pursuits, which surround a man as he advances in Life, are weeds- which, if they do not effectually overpower whatever Literary plants have been already cultivated-are, I am sorry to say, very effectual preventatives, of profitable cultivation of any new sowing in Literary soil. Had I the early advantage of speaking (as you did) the Irish Language, in infancy ; I certainly s!lould, with my present feelings 011 the subject, have made some industrious efforts, a t acquirements ; which, I have otllerwise despaired of ; and therefore, neglected irretreviably. My sole merit, if any it be, in regard of our Native Language, is therefore confined, to a candid confession of my ignorance, and my regret ; the latter being aggravated, by just so much knowledge, by translations, kc . , as enables me to judge, of the energy and copiousness of the venerable original. I have nevertheless made i t a sort of Literary Hobby- Horse, for a few years past ; to collect, and bring together, as many books on Irish History and antiquities, as my means admitted me to procure : and I have also, with a good deal of pains and cost, assembled many scattered Volunles of Irish &I.S.S. ; a very few of which are on Vellum. The former consist of numerous poems ; Historical, Religious, or facetious ; with considerable Genealogical Collections ; (some very curious and comprehensive) -and the latter, being exclusively on Medicine, The principal one of which is a fragment of many pages of a folio M.S. of the early

part of the 14!? Century ; bearing its ow11 date : and by some experienced scribe, with curious and difficult contractions. I have had very careful, and erudite analysis, and tables of contents, of all my M.S.S. ; made by a most able Irish scholar ; my friend M!. John O'Donovan ; who devoted much time in so doing : or in revising and correcting tables, made by a very good Irish Scribe ; but less qualified Irish scholar ; Daniel Malone who has also transcribed for me some other R1.S.S. ; which I had been enabled to obtain the loan of. A11 those J1.S.S. are now bound up, and regularly put in order ; with every pains, to remedy the previous injuries, of time and neglect : and to guard against the future injuries of either. The indices are all prepared ; but as yet, not fair copied into their respective Volumes. The whole of my 6collection, tho not generally l,txique, or valuable ; still comprises a good deal, of what is curious, and interesting. In addition, to what I have above described I have a large folio Vol. on Parch- ment : being the extracts mzd selectioszs ; made, from various ancient M.S.S., by the late Michael Casey : known in Dublin as a successful Gout Doctov, from a recipe which he fo~uld in an old Vellum MS. in Irish ; and which latter, is one of the smaller of my M.S.S. on that material : but which Casey preserved from all inspection, during his Life time. The principal number of my Paper M.S.S., were purchased by me at the Sale of the Late Ed. O'Reilly's 1I.S.S. ; and I greatly regret I did not bid much more extensively ; for they were sold very much under their real value. 1 procured at my o~7n expense a few additional copies of his very curious " Sale Catnlogt~e" to be printed, for my own use : and shall have much pleasure in taking an opportunity, to present you with one : an acquisition, which you could not, in any other way, now obtain.

I conclude you have Ed. O'Reilly's "descriptive Catalogue of anc'ent Irish writersJ' published as 19 Vol. of the "Transactions of the Hiberno-Celtic Society 4". I f you have it not ; and choose to procure a desideratum of the first interest, in Irish Literature I shall have much pleasure, in executing any coinmission you send for that purpose, and if you choose to be a t the expense of a M.S. copy of Index to it, (without which it is far 'less useful as a book of reference) I shall have pleasure, in allowing the index to my own copy, to be transcribed for you : which was copied for

me, by Ed. O'Reilly's Daughter, a t his desire ; and of which I believe, only 4 copies are, in all, extant.

Besides the Irish iS1.S.S. I myself possess I am aware of the following Collections

Royal Irish Academy including original aim. quat. Magist. Book of Leacan Speckled book of Mac Eogan & various others.

British IiIuseunz including a large Collection, lately bought from Mr. Hardiinan.

Sir VCJ?? Betham, M.R.I.A., not many but some very curious Vellum MS.

Lord George Hill, M.R.I.A., a few Irish A4.S.S. George Petre, Esq" Do. a few Do. N. T. OINeill, Esq E Lower Gloucester Sf. Dublin.

Messr." Sinith & Hodges, booltsellers, Dame S t Dublin. Nost R e d D': Murphy, R.C. Bishop of Cork, a large collection

of Modern copies, by various scribes ; by him employed : consisting of probably, 40 to 60 Vols. 8" of RIiscellaneous prose and poeti-y ; and which hrds cost him a large sun1 a t a sinall amount per page : inany of the subjects, being wrjt$n down from memory, &c. .; and being probably very tmequal, as to merit, or value. But there being no index all is conjkcture.

Charles Keane O'Hara, Esq':. of Annaghinore, C?. Sligo, has a very curious smdl /olio M S . on vellum comprising a large collection of Poenls 'in praise of his ancestors : coin- piled for Cormac More O'Hara temp. Eliz. @@ a very curious essay, and analysis of this MS., was made by my friend JnO 09Donovan ; to oblige me : and was by me, presented to the present owner of the MS. : w!'. I also repaired, and got bound : and a copy of which essay and index, I have myself preserved.

I believe I have now, to the best of my information, given an accf. of all the collections of Irish Rf.S.S. ; I am at all acquainted with.

In reply to your enquiries as to "the prevalence of the Irish Language in Lez'nster"; I an1 not aware of its being, scarcely at all, in use in C9Wublin ; TVicltlow : Wexford : Cai-low : Kildare :

Queen's C .9 : King's C?. ; or Westmeath : except perhaps in the Connaught end of the last County. In Meat11 it is I believe still spoken, partially.

In Connaught i t is the usual Language of the Peasantry; who however generally (except the old people) also speak English.

Few of the Gentry speak it well ; and many not at all. The ancient Irish character, is written by very few persons

and scarcely a t all, others write the Irish, in the E~zglish, Chnrncter for preservation of old poems, kc. : but except by a few "savans" it is wholly in disuse, for epistolary communication.

It does not appear probable, that the study of the Irish language ; or its printed Literature, is likely to extend much : as the Scriptures, tho extensively printed by subscription Societies, are not however found extant, in the hands of those, they were

- intended for : nor has It happened (in the course of extensive intercourse with the Peasantry) that I should have met, with a single Bible in the Irish language : nor is that Book found, a t any time (unless by way of exception) in any Language, in the hands of the R.C. Peasantry, in any part of Ireland, I am well acquainted with.

I . am not personally acquainted with any members of the Scottish Gdic Societies. But shall submit your enquiry and this letter to the per~~sa l of my friend George Petrie, E ~ Z M.R.I.A., with a request to add a few words of P.S. in reply to you. -

I sho111d be very glad indeed to receive your observations on the state of the Irish Language, Literature, kc,: ; within the district of your knowledge, or enquiry ; I feel iiiuch obliged, by your con:munications on all snch matters.

As a means of enabling you to preserve, for your .own use or for communication to others, whatever you may take the pains and trouble to write; I shall take an early opportunity to send back to you free of postage either your original Letter, or a fair copy, which I can get some person to make : and tho' I cannot think, what I myself may here, or at another time, write ; of much importance for preservation : yet, as a necessary part of such correspondence I should feel obliged by your taking for me a similar trouble ; when my letter shall be, of no further use to you.

You s h o ~ l d add to your. Irish collection^ the 1st Vol. of the

" Pzi5Ji.n Pevny JOZLYIM.~"-wherein you will find much curious Irish Literature : and some admirable essays on antiquities and architecture of formei days,

I have been busy enquiring, for a good pair of the Horns, of the Gigantic Deer ; frequently found in our bogs : and most frequently, in the Southern Counties. If it rnay be in.your power to do me any service in this respect ; or in relation to any, Irish weapons, or reliques of any lriild ; I should feel much obliged : and repay with thanks, any expense you thought it i:easonable to incur on my account.

I have endeavoured by the length of this Letter, rather $hail its merit in any other point, of view, to give you ready proof of my willingness to afford yo11 every assistance in my humble power in your "pursuits of Irish Literattlre" and remain Dear Sir

Your veiy f aithf~11 Humble Sert MYLES ,JOHN O'REILLY.

P.S.-My Regular address is '

The -Heath House Emo.

But G.P.O. Dublin fin& me always and is better.

MF. Petrie regrets that he is not competent to give Mr. P. F. Barron any accurate information relative to the Gaelic Society or Societies of Scotland. He is in fact only cognisant that one such body is in existence, and that they have published for some considerable time a monthly periodical in the Gaelic Language.

There is also a Gaelic Society in Belfast which has recently published an Irish tale translated from Miss Edgworth. I t may be had of Curry and C?. Dublin,

The last two paragraphs above are in the hancl-cvi-iting of George Petrie the well-known Irish antiquary.

A CARRICKMAN'S DIARY4 7874 8019

(Continued).

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By REV. P. POWER.

N the last instalinent, and under date 1804, we found our genial diarist chronicling the demoliticjn of the old Catholic church of his native town and parish. Extraordinary progress was made with the new worlcs ; the shell of the church was completed in four months, so that it was possible to open the building for public use. The methods of builders do certainly not

1 appear to have improved during the century which has since elapsed. A considerable debt remained to be discharged on account of the church and much: too, remained to be done by way of interior finishing and furnishing. To raise the requisite funds a general meeting of the parishioners was held on April 19th, .

&Wf at which it was agreed that contributions should take the ' '-;" special form of increased payments a t the church doors on Sundays, viz. :-that those whose original subscriptions were five guineas or over should contribute 1Od. per Sunday, and original subscribers of less than five guineas, 5d. It was 'likewise resolved to employ four collectors at the doors and to exempt from contribution all strangers and casual visitors. Moreover it mas decreed that no

new subscriptions of less than three guineas be accepted. Ap- parently response to the new appeal was satisfactory for at an adjourned meeting, three weeks later, it was resolved to proceed with the timber work of the ceiling, a contract for which was let to John Stone, the church committee to find all materials except nails ! Stone's contract was no less expeditiously carried out than the builders' had been ; the woodwork was completed in a fortnight, when the committee were in a position to let the plastering to Mr. Lewis of Piltown, and a man from Clonmel. Though the stuccoing was not then quite completed i t was possible to have the scaffolding talcen down by July 23rd. Under this latter date the diarist describes the pillars as finished, also* the ceiling ornaments from centre of which the chains for lamps and lustres depended. Plastering of pillars, including, presumably, the ornamental foliage of the capitals, cost £3 per coltlmn : the trusses were done at two guineas and the ornaments of the ceiling at five and a half guineas each. The plastering account totalled £85 8s. 6d. Later on (November 1st) in this same year it was resolved to wood- panel the front of the galleries a t a cost of £33 and materials. Andrew Ryan was contractor for this last item which was done in " the style of the new chapel of Waterford."

The -following year, on July l l th , Bishop John Power held his first Confirmation in the new church. Although Dr. Power had been now four years in office this was his first visitation of Carrick and no fewer than eight hundred children were presented for the Sacrament. Abot~t the same time presumably, or perhaps a little earlier, a bell in keeping with the dignity of the new church was cast for the latter in England. It weighed, the diarist states, five tons and over, and, he adds, that a new tower was built for it, " at a pretty smart expense.''

The diarist's interests in the affairs of his parish are so practical, deep and keen that he devotes several pages to a roughly alpha- betical list of subscribers to the new church. This list I was a t first disinclined to inflict upon my readers. On further consideration it has appeared to me the list possesses considerable value, serving as i t .does to some extent. the purpose of an urban census. As no subscriber in the following list paid less than a guinea, the names of the very poorest class of parishioners do not appear. Otherwise I think we may accept it as a practically

complete list' of the Catholic householders of the parish of Carrick in 1804 :-

Jams Archbold, shopkeeper Walter Aylward, carpenter W. H. Bradshaw, Esq. IZdwd Barron, Gent. Jams Burlte, shopkeeper Martin Brenan, ,, Mich' Brien, merchant Mich' Barker, shopkeeper AliceButler ,, John Burke ) ,

Pat Buclc , , Pierse Butler ,, Margt Burke ,, Denis Brien, coal in'rcht. Tobias Burke, dier JnO Barron, tobacconist Mary Burlte, grocer Jams Butterfield, , , Joe Barker, apothecary Thos. Brien, cooper Pat Brien, turner Mich' Brien, Callan JamS Byrne, mercht Pat Byrne, clothier Will Byrne, farmer 1 Braz i l ,, Widow Byrne, Pubn Will Boe, Mealman Michl. Butler, Whitechurch Henry Brazil], hatter Lord Clonmel ~ d m ~ Cantwell, mercht Thomas Campion, grocer Eliz. Cantwell, lnercht Pat Cullenan, pubn

Mau. Cullenan, pubn Will Cunningham, mercl? Jno. Connolly, publican Lau. Charles, chandler Will Carroll (Anne Burlte)

[chandler Red Cantwell, shopkeeper Stephen Campion, baker Will Campion, shopkeeper Joanna Cantwell ,, JamS Cantwell, , , JnO Cleary, coachinan Pat Casey, clothier Will Corrigan, cordwainer Richd Connell, orchard Bryan Connor, clothier JnO Coughlan, sen., cooper Luke Coughlan, clothier ~ i c h ~ Clarke, stuff manufacturer Thos Coughlan, merchant Nowlan St. Connolly, cornbuyers Davd Cavanagh, nailor Jam" Connell , clothier JnO Cartwright, comber Pat Comerford, gentleman Stephen Casey, clothier Joe Carshore, banker Mrs. -~hristian Mrs. Carroll, publican Thos. Cahill, ,, Thos. Cary, shearinan JizO Coghlin, Inis, chandler Mrs. Dobbyn, gentlewoman Terence Doyle, merchant Pierse Doyle, ,,

Frans Doyle, clothier JnO Daniel, shopkeeper Eifrn'l Daniell, inercht , , Dwyer, shopkeeper

Joe De Courcy, Innholder Thos. Daniel, miller IZdnld Daniel, clothier Pat Dalton, miller '

Wm Donovan, brogue maker Thos. Downey, victualler Mich, Daniel, shoplteeper Phil Dunphy, dealer & chapman Mau. Doyle, gent, Jams Doyle, mei-cht John Dooley, miller, 7713 ABnl tl Nich" Fitzpatrick, shoplteeper Will Flahavan, grocer Martin Fogarty, publican Thos. Feehan, grocer Geoffrey Fitzgibbon, bonesetter Davd Fitzgerald, cordwainer JnO Fitzpatrick, carpenter Ric hd Fi tzgerald , linen-weaver Mich. Fitzpatrick, publican - Fitzpati-ick, cordmaker Jams Feehan, Tiboroughney Geo. Fitzgibbon, gauger Thos. Farrell, Cook Lane R'lrs, Gilhooley, shopkeeper Will Gaul, dealer, Src. Thos. Grant, ,, Richd Gorman, clothier Pat Grace, miller and baker Phil Higgins, gent. Edmd Hahessy , mercht Will Hayes, Millvale Hugh Hearn, grocer Mary Higgins, ,, Pat Hayes, leather cutter

Bob Hayes, publican John Hayes, ,, Thos. Hahessy, coal inercht Blich. Hayes, Whitechurch Geo. Hobbs, brewer Capt . Jephson Thos. Jones, cordmalter Lau. Kelly, glazier & painter Miss Keenan, shoplteep er '

Will Keiinedy, innholder Nichs ICennedy Dan Kennedy, clothier Michl ICennedy, publican Peter Kennedg 7 , rnrocer JnO Kennedy, rape-miller And. Kennedy, chandler Jno. Kinshella, clothier Mrs. Keefe, balm- Mau. Kiely , clot hies Matt. Kelly, watch-maker Will Kenn y, Cloninel; cooper Mich' Kinealy , j oiner Pat Lynch, grocer Peter Lynagh, baker Jams Lynch, chandler Mich. Lynagh, baker Thos. Lalor, Esq. Jas. Larkin, Tibroughney Jas. Lewis, Piltown, slator Richd Lystor, sadler *

Will Leviston, nailor Rev. Jno. MCKenna, P.P. Thos. Morris, shopkeeper Thos. McCai-thy, , , Jas. Mandevill, Cregg Pat. Jlurray, tobacconist Nichs McCann, tamer David Mara, shopkeeper JnO McCaiy, 9 )

Cath. McEniry, clothier Sergin t Murray, tailor Mich' Mea, brogue maker Mrs. McCann, widow Jno. Murphy, tanner Pat Meagher, clothier Mich' Meany, publican Jas. McGuiness, victualler Edmd McCabe, shopkeeper Jno. Mara, linen weaver David Moore, clothier Jas. Magrath ,, Luke Murphy, tanner Jas. Mandeville, publican Lau. Magrath, locksmith Joe Murphy, Cregg Jas. Morrissey, joiner ~ d m ~ Murphy, New St. Edmd Mandeville, corn buyer Messrs. Newport, bankers Mich. Noonan, baker Mich. Nowlan, clothier Owen Neary , cordmaker ~ i c h ' O'Neil, hardware Jno. O'Neill, grocer Joanna O'Neill, ,, Thos. O'Neill, attorney ~ d m ~ O'Neill, farmer And. O'Riordan, merchant Mau. O'Donnell, dealyard Jas. O'Halleran, Dublin w!? O'Donnell, dier Joe O'Donnell, gent. David Power, mercht Jas. Power, Lough St. James Power, clothier Matt. Power, shopkeeper Wm. Power, publican Nichs Power, tanner

Wm. Power, chandler Pierse Power, skinner John Power, mercht Mary Power, publican Jas. Power, Mercht Rich. Power, Esq. Jas. Power, Mainstown Thos. Power, of the same Pat. Power, Tinhalla, Esq. Rob. Power, Rath. Pierse Prendergast , shopkeeper Widow Perry Chas Prendergast, gent.

Prendergast , Ballylynch JnO & Thos. Price, tailors RIrS Quirk, publican ~ d m * Quinlan, mercht ~ i c h ' Quirk, clothier ~ i c h ' Quinn, Ballylynch Widow Quinn, ,, Will Qurke, Dublin ~ i c h ' Rivers, shopkeeper Pierse Rowe, apothecary Quinlan & Russell, shopkeepers Jas. Ryan, land-surveyor Pat Rowley, tobacconist Francis Rowe, shopkeeper Thos. Rourlie, mason Bryan Rourke, mercht Darby Rourke, farmer Widow Rourke, shopkeepef Stephen Russel, craner ~ i c h ' Ryan, mercht Geo. Reade, Threebridges Lau. Ryan, victualler Will Smyth, iron mercht. Rich. Sause, banker ~ d r n ~ Smyth, gent. Val Smyth, ,,

Tim Shea, book-keeper Rich. Shea, baker Matt. Slattery, grocer Thos. Styles, nailor Thos. Shea, shopkeeper Peter Shea, ,, Rich. Shea, Ballylynch Mich. Shea, brogue-maker John Stone, joiner Thos. Stephenson, hozier Will Shea, grocer Revqames Smyth, clerk Widow Sexton, town wall

' Jams Spencer, niercht Frans Smyth, gent. Mrs. (Lad.) Sinyth Pat Toomy, Shearman Thos. Toomy, corn buyer John Toomey, shopkeeper ~ i c l Toomey, miller ,

Tim Toole, dealer & chapman Nich. Tobin, gent. Thos. Verrington, baker Will Vass, gent. Stephen Wells, t aiiner Will Walsh, clothier Matt. Walsh, tanner Miss Walsh, Town Wall Margt Walsh, Cook Lane Pat Walsh, carman, stage keeper Rich. Walsh, tanner Peter Walsh, Belline, Esq. Jno. Walsh, shoemaker Jas. Woods, jun., grocer Jos. Woods, cordwainer Mich. Wall, Mainstown, farmer Mrs. Wall, Cregg, widow Isaac Withers, Innholder Geo. Wade, master-cooper

~ i c h ' Whelan, Castle, book- Jno. Whelan, gardener [keeper Pat White, grocer JnO White, pt~b. Mrs. Wells, ,, PatWells,tanner .

Pat Boyle, -Carrickbeg Joe Butler, ironmonger Ths Brien, shopkeeper ~ d m " ~ > i e n , shearman M'' Byrne, publican Jas. Butler ,, Bob Coughlan, chandler Mat. Conelly, Lough St. Will T. Doyle, merchant Mrs. McDaniel, gauger Mau. Dooley, Ballyltnock Pat Grace, cabinet maker Antony Galway, brewer Peter Hickey, Deerparlt Jno. Hearn, cordwaiper Thos. Hearn, skinner John Higgins, shopkeeper Jam" Haugh, glazier Jno. Hogan, book-keeper Thos. Hickey, Ballinderry Andrew Kinvan, pub. Jas. Kenny ,) Rob. Keating, brazier Widow Kavanagh, Lough St. Widow Lannigan, New Lane ,

Will Marks, publican R~ McNamara ,, Pat O'Neil ,, ~ d m ~ Power, Ballyrichard Rob. Power, tanner Thos. Prendergast , Ballinderry

Pat Purcell, publican Jas. Quinlan, grocer Edmd Quinlan, Ballinderry Cath. Ryan (Jam") shopkeeper Miss Rowes Denis Ryan, bookkeeper John ,, 7 Y

Jas. ,, , 9

Will Rocket, Deerpark Walt' St. John, tailor John Sexton, publ.

"Taken from Treasurer's books. The lowest subscriber subscribed and paid a guinea, e'er now.

J; Ryan."

"James Ryan land surveyor," of the above list, is of coarse, the diarist himself, and "Pat Power of Tinhalla, Esq." is the noted fire-eater--Phqws na ' O e a p s ~ ~ t . Elsewhere, under date May 18th, 1788, the diarist records the removal of Mr. Power from the Lodge of Coolnamuck to Tinhalla consequent upon his purchase of the Tinhalla, Portnabo, and Brownswood property.

In a footnote of mine to the diarist's text I adverted, in last issue, to some difficulty which exists in determining the status in Carrick, or even the identity, of Rev. Michael Darcy, who died in 1790. The following facts may help somewhat towards elucidation of the problem. Sometime previous to 1787 a Rev. Mr. Darcy, then Parish Priest of Ballyneal and styled-perhaps only by courtesy-Doctor of Divinity, came illto collision with the White- boys of his parish because of his vigorous denunciation of their tenets and lawless conduct. Like his next door neighbour, the pastor of Kilcash, he suffered personal violence at the hands of those deluded men. During celebration of Mass at lMullenaglock, near Nine-Mile-House, he was attacked by a band of the outlaws and it appears to me not unlikely that he retired thenceforth from active administration of the parish. By the way, the diary an- nounces the appointment of Rev. Mr. Connor as curate to Father McKenna on the day of the "Month's Mind" for Father Darcy.

Mai-riages are perennial sources of popular interest and it is evident from the diarist's hymenal references that they were just as popularly interesting a hundred years ago as they are to-day. Elopement, abduction, or clandestinity not unfrequently lent to the marriage of a century ago an element of romance practically impossible in our more law abiding times. Let the diarist tell in his own way his story of old Carrick's matrimonial engagements :-

Jan. 15th, 1787, Mr. Redmond Magrath was married to Miss Fling, daug' of Mr. an' Fling of Rathgormack.

The 14th Feb, Mr. Jno Purcell, junr., was married. June the 10th Dr. 170unge mas married to Miss English,

Postmistress of Carrick, a match greatly admired ! The Dr. is only 75 years old, and the lady about 45.-The 12th again the Dr. and his lady were married a second time ; the first being scarce according to law,? they having been first married by her sister Mrs. Sha~v--i\"Irs Shaw ! Aye Mrs. Shaw-Mrs. Shaw, ha, ha, ha !

The second marriage was performed by Mr. Herbert in the presence of Dr. Ryan and Mr. Char. Holliday The Lady began to be stale but now she is Younge. . Some time in November this year, Mr. Kennedy, sub-constable, was married to Mrs. Ryan, widow of James Ryan, she has but 10 children by her former husband, and he 3 step-children by his former wife, and these 10, making in all but 13 step-children ! tis remarkable his 2 wives were the widoes of 2 men that were Idled.

Nichl Magrath was married to a natural daughter of Nich. Power, Esq., of ~ ib raughbe~ , the 19th of November, they eloped together some days before ; God speed the Blow !

1788.-Tho. Philips, junr., was married to widow Ryan (Pegg. Mahony) the 7th Jan., 17843.

Mr. Pat. Bow, Appothecary, was married to Miss ahi ill on Thursday night the 3rd April, 1788.

Maurice Coonan of St. John's Road was married to the widow of Richd Prendergast, late of Carrickbeg, on Sunday, 20th ~ u l y , 1788.

Miss Molly Dalton was married to Mr. Joe Murphy the 23rd July, 1788.

1789.-Mr. Joe Dalton, junr., was married at Cashill 19th February, 1789.

Miss Nancy Dalton ('tis said) was privately married (at Water- ford) to Mr. Morrissey of Cashill, her brother's brother-in-law ; about the middle of April, 1789. Rev. W" Darcy refused to have anything to do with the young man as he would not produce a certificate from his Parish Priest. a

Matt Bow married to the agreeable Miss Kitty McCullagh on Thursday, the 20th August, 1789.

Friday, 5th Feb., 1790, Miss Nelly Power (Cooper) was married to Mr. Pat Quirk, Clerk at Mr. O'DonS Dealyard.

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Mary Cronan and her cousin, - Flanigan, were married by Mr. Herbert, Sunday, 14th Feb., 1790.

Miss Murphy, daughter of Jno. Murphy, Nailer, was married to a Mr. Dunne on Monday, 15th Feb., 1790,

Mr. Moulton (Gauger) was married to Miss Nancy Holliday, daugtr of Mr. John Holliday, the 31st Dec., 1790.

Mr. Thos. Coughlan and Miss Mary Cullinan married, February 19th, 1791.

And Mr. Thos. Pinny married to Miss Lyster about a week before ; they are of the sect called Swadlers.

Mr. Anthony Gilhooly was married to Miss Biddy Neil, daughter of Mr. James Neil, on Monday evening, 2nd May, 1791.

Miss Fanny Jephson was married on Sunday the 17th July, 1791, to Counsellor Lee of Waterford.

Rev. James Smyth and Miss Joanna Ryan, daughter of Mr. Tim. Ryan married on Friday night, the 19th August, 1791. The 'young lady having qualified herself last Wednesday in the Parish Church by reading her Recantation ! dncb j . dn ?jpdrnAn CU&QIL 01pte: b i o ~ rndp Tin.

Miss Fanny Magrath, daughter of Mr. Thos. Magrath, Farmer, was married the 24th Nov., 1791, to Mr. Doyle of Ross.

Mr. Richard Magrath, Brother to the above Fanny, was married (in Dublin) about the same time to Miss Susy Dowlan. God speed the plough. Amen.

Mr. Charles Prendergast, Farmer, was married to Mis; Mary Fling, on Friday, 23rd March (Last Friday in Lent but one) 1792.

Mr. Mat. Kennedy was married to Miss Kitty Fitzgerald, the 9th May, 1792.

Mr. John Hearne, Attorney, married to his cousin german the 23rd April, 1793.

Mr. Butler, son of Mr. Thos. Butler of Kilcash, was married 25th May, 1793, to Miss O'Donnell, second daughter of Mr. Pierce O'Donnell.

Mr. Tennison married to Miss Brien, daughter of Mr. Martin Brien, Schoolmaster, 28th May, 1793.

Capt. Buteriield married to Miss Jude Holliday, daughter of Mr. Jno. Holliday, on Monday, 5th Aug., 1793.

1794.-Mr. Theobald Burke married to Miss Wal& (dat~g' of Mr. Matt. Walsh), Sunday 9th Feb., 1794.

Mr, Frank Doylc was married to Miss Peggy Burke on Wednes- day, 9th July, 1794,

Sir James Cahill (Ihight Templar) married to Miss Barron (daughter of Mr. Jno. Barron), Sunday, 3rd Aug., 1794.

George Rothe, Esq., married to Miss Jephson on Sunday, 30th Nov., 1794.

David Power married to Miss Biddy Higgins (Daughter of Mr. Phil Higgins) 13th April, 1795. .

Mr. Slattery of Carrick was married to one of Mr. Peter ~ause's daughters, Sunday, 8th Jan., 1797.

Monday, 24th April, Mr. Richd, Walsh (Mrs. Russell's late son-in-law) was .ma.i~ied to Mrs. Fling, Daugr of Mi-. Daniel Fling, Rathgormack.

Same day Mr. Pat. Lynch (son of James Lynch) was married to Joanily Keenan.

Mr. Michael Cantwell married to Miss Clancy on Thursday the 8th of June, 1797.

Davd Mara married to Miss Burke, daugr of Mr. John Burke, Sunday, 27th &fay, 1798.

Mr. James Burke married to Miss Mary Daniel the 28th Sept., 1798.

Sunday, 18th Nov., 1798, Mary Ryan (daughter c.rf the writer's) was married to Mr. Michael Brown of Lismore.

Saturday, 2nd Feb., 1799, Miss O'Donnell (Mau) was married to a Mr. Meagher from Bristol. And same day Miss Cox (Foxy Coxy) was married to Mau. Bishop Ansley, Esq., of Kilaloe, in the County of Clare.

Sunday, 3rd March, 1799, Mr. Peter Kennedy was married to the agreeable Miss Mary Sause (n)

Wednesday, 3rd April, Mr. James Power, Brewer, was married to the agreeable Mrs. Hurley.

Monday, 2211d July, 1799, kh. Hayden, Watchmaker, was married to Miss Cox. Cpjbir~.

Sat., 31st Aug., a report prevailed that the agreeable Miss Ellen Smyth was married to a Mr. Lewis, one of the officers of the Dorset Militia ; if it be so, 'tis a jobb of her own making, and not to be fa1slted.-Turned out to be true !

(a ) , Sister to Mr. R. Sause of Whitestown.

Mr. Will. Vass was married to some strange girl some time last year (1798) as the story goes : the girl lives with him, and had a child, marriage not decleared !

On ~ u e s . night, 1st Oct., Mr. Michael O7Neil was married to Miss Coughlan, 1801. Mr. John O'Neil married to Miss Mary Butler the 17th March, 1801.

Mr. William Keating to Miss Greene (f;t.airin) on Tues., 25th Aug .

Mr. Edmd. Cantwell to Miss Betty White on Wednesday, 2nd Sep.

Miss Lanigan to Miss Jane McCarthy on Monday night, 21st Sep. Miss Margaret Ryan, daug' of Mr. Tim. Ryan, was married

on Tues. evening, 20th Oct., to a Mr. Clarke, an officer in the Regt of Lancashire Volunteers, then quartered at Clonmel.

Miss White (Cathe), daug" of Mr. Frank White of Carrickbegg, was married on Tuesday, 7th Dec., to a Mr. Hobbs of the City of Waterford ; the young lady's fortune (£1,400) was the least of her accomplishments. ,May Almighty God give them every blessing which should attend the married state to make it truly happy !

1802.-Mr. Pierse Butler to Miss Wells. See Elopement. Mr. Thos. Coughlan was married to Mrs. Kirwan of Dungarvan,

widow, on Friday, 8th January, and brought home next day. Mr. Jno. Coughlan (brother to above) chandler was married

to Miss Daniel, Sat., 30th January. Mr. Mathias Slattery to the agreeable Miss Mary Magrath

on Tuesday, 2nd Feb. (Lady day). Will Ryan, Esq., brought his wife to Carrick the 23rd March ;

they were about two days married. On Monday night, November 23rd, 1801, Miss Wells eloped

with Mr. Pierse Butler. Saturday morning, Aug. 7th, 1802, Mr. Valentine OJDonnel1

and Miss Meagher took a march together from his father's house where the young lady had been on a visit for some time.

1807.-Will Hayes (servant to Mr. Bradshaw) hopped off with Miss ~a t thews , daughter of Harry Matthiws, Police Constable ; the girl was almost fifteen beginning of November or end of October.

1802, 10th Aug., Mr. Richard Scott of Kilkenny to Miss Joana N eill.

Sept . 2, Capt . Theobald Mandeville to Miss 0 'Donnell, daughter of Joe O'Donl Esq'.

I I Sept., D'Arcy Mahon to Miss Lalor of Cregg. September 29, Mr. Butler, jun' of Lowsgreen, to Miss Wall

a t Clonegam. Oct. 20, Miss Mary Burke to a Mr. Kelly of the city of Dublin- 1803.-Nov. 27, Mr. 'CV" Campion to Miss Barron. 1803.-Mr. ~ i c h l Qninn to Miss Slatterie on May 16th. Miss Sophy Hubert to Mr. Mandeville Dec. 8th. Christopher Moore to the agreeable ~ o a n n a ' , ~ o ~ l e Dec. 27. 1808.-Mr. Will OJDonnell married to Miss Same 7 Jan.

'Tis somewhat singular that their parent (fathers) on either side were not reconciled to the match and yet people in general think i t a good match on both sides. Catherine Ryan (writer's daughter) was married to James Mara of Clonmel Feb. 4th. Thos. Coghlin married to Miss Mansfield Feb. 2

Mr. Rob. Quinlan married to Miss Rowley, St. John's Day, June 24th) 1808, at Mr. Thos. McCarthy's, finding but a slippery footing at the brother's, commonly called the Boy-0.

Mr. John Lynch to Miss Biddy Burke of the West Gate. Henry Briscoe, Esq. (Tinvane) to Miss Alice White of Carrielzr

beg, 15th Nov., 1809. I

Mr. Will Doyle married to Miss Quirk Feb 6. Mr. Tim Lynch to Miss Boyle, May 7.

NEVV GENEVA.

I (Continued.)

By MATTHEW BUTLER.

COUNCIL CHAMBER, 10th March, 1784.

We the commissioners for settling in Ireland a , colony of Genevans request you will lay before The

Lord Lieutenant our Desire That His Grace will be pleased to issue orders for the sum of Five Hundred

; Pounds sterling to be advanced to us for the further carrying into effect the Purposes of the Genevan Settlement.

We have the Honor to be Sir

170ur Most Obedients and most Humble Servant

CORN. BOLTON, chair. LUKE GARDINER JAMS CUFFE HENRY ALCOCK (k)

Rt. Honble. Thos. Orde. ALEX ALCOCIL

(k) One of the M.P.'s for Waterford City.

SIR, .

According coininunicated

to the instiuctions of the Geilevan Comnlissioners to me by yours' of the .$th inst. I remit you for

their Inspection the enclosed sketch ( I ) of the different boundaries of all the quarters or districts into which the lands of Duncannon Fort are us~rally divided from which the relative situation and extent of each quarter with respect to the other may be known.

With regard to tlle inforination they desire concerning twenty acres of land wllich it is their opinion should be appropriated as a glebe to the living of Passage 1 beg leave to lay before thein always with the inost perfect deference to the decision of such a respectable body of gentlemen what follow.

There is in the quarter of ~inocltna~auphu' as will appear from inspection of the inclosed sketch a Glebe land now affected to the living of Passage entirely surrounded on three sides by the lands of the said quarter of Iinocltnagauphul, and on the other side by those of Kill St. Nicholas the property of my Lord Tyrone, this Glebeland inark'd by the letters A B C D consists of five acres and about two roods, I am therefore respcctfully of opinion that if convenient whatever addition is to be made to the Glebelands of the living of Passage ought to be adjoining to the same Glebe- land already annesJd to it and as to the grotmd in question tlothing could be done more conveniei~tly, since by measuring off and a p e x - ing to the present Glebe land that portion of I(lnocltnagauph~~l lands markJd by the dotted line run from A to E and* bokidkd by the other lines which meet a t H and C: which may contajn about six acres or upwards, and conlpleating what shall be found wanting to make up the said twenty acres from the lands terminated on one side by those of Kill St. Nicholas and on the other by the dotted line drawn from A up towards F bordering on the south quarter of Knockroe. I apprehend such a disposition would be for many reasons inore proper than having different and separate patches of land affected to the living of Passage, they being here united with what dready belongs to the living, and in a situation of all others the inost separate and detached from any other part of the lands, as is evident from inspection of the inclosed sketch.

As to the quality of the land in question which I examin'd

( I ) Sketch missing.

Friday last I hope with the attention due to the Instructions I received it is neither of the best nor of the worst sort of the Dun- cannon Lands. Part of it is upon a rising ground not yet brought in but which may easily be so, for that which is immediately adjoining of the Kill St. Nicholas land is as fine upland meadow as I have seen anywhere, and the land surveyor here can measure off accurately the number of acres intended whenever the com- ission determines he shall do so.

I remain sir Your most Obedient

& very humble Serv!. H. G. Quin, Esq. J. FERRIER.

The Attorney General presents He will direct the Crown Sollicitor Commissioners a copy of the clause foreigners, which he has introduced in of Ihockroe, &c., in the Crown. ELY PLACE,

PInrch the 18th.

his complim?-to Mr. Quin. to lay before the Genevan for naturalizing Protestant the Bill for vesting the lands

H. G. Quin, Esq. --

COUNCIL CHAMBER, SIR, lStk A~nrc l t , 1784.

We the Commissioners for settling in Ireland a colony of Genevans request you will lay before the Lord Lieutenant our opinion that His Grace should be pleased to issue orders for the sum of fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty po~ulds sterg to be advanced from time to time to the Right ~ o n b ' e James Cuff accordingly as he shall require for building houses for the immediate accommodation of the Genevans according to the contract now approved of by the commission and delivered to the said James Cuff.

We have the Honor to be Sir

Your most ob!. humble Servants LUKE GARDINER, Chairman. HENRY ALCOCK CORN. BOLTON ROB. CORBET

Right Honb'~ Mr. Orde. W. BLAQUIRE

PASSAGE, March 18th, 1784.

SIR, I beg leave thro' your means to lay before the Genevan Com-

missioners the following circumstances. That on the 29th of last May I received the directions of the

Board of Ordnance pursuant to the orders of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to attend and assist the Right on or able Mr. Cuff in establishing a new town in this country and to follow such directions as I should from time to time receive from him till farther orders, and that Board at the same time receiv'd his Ex- cellency's orders to pay me the usual appointments of staff pay and forrage money while I should be so employ'd and desirJd me to apply to them. the beginning of last January for such of said appointments as should be then due to me up to the 31st December, 1783 ; that I accordingly did apply and a t the same time presented them a certificate signed by Mr. Cuff testifying that I had attended him according to the orders I receivJd from the 29!! May to the 31% December, 1783 ; that not Having hitherto receiv'd any answer or information from the said Board of my appointments being order'd to be paid in consequence of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's orders ; that being greatly distressJd at this moment on account of the said appointn~ents being so long detain'd from me ; and that moreover being orderJd to this place on business by Mr. Cuff the end of last December as I had been on different occasioils before, and not chusing to leave it upon any private concern at this time expecially when I am enlploy'd in receiving and executing a variety of instructions and directions of the commissioners ; it is my humble 'and earnest request to the gentlemen of the Cominission that they will by their Chairman represent the above circuinstances to his present Excellency the Duke of Rutland who I have great reason to believe is not exactly inform'd of them praying his Excellency at the same time that he will be pleas'd to order the Board of Ordnance to pay me forthwith the above mention'd staff pay and forrage money clue to me and to avoid nly being so distress'd in future while employ'd in the service here that his Excellency will be pleas'd to order that Board to pay me the said appointments henceforward quarterly as they fall due.

I am sensible the best apology I can make to the dentlernen of the Comiss?. for this great trouble I most respectfully presume to give them must arise from their own candour and feelings for an officer in my situation who has long and faithfully serv'd his country in many parts of the world and who is now confident he will not on the present occasion be permitted to be a sufferer for having done his duty and for 'having executed the orders and depended upon the word of a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

I am Sir Your most obedient

& very humble Sert.. J. FERRIER,. H. G. Quin, Esq.

DUBLIN CASTLE, 24th Marclz, 1784.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, The Lord Lieutenant having taken into consideration a letter

from Major Ferrier to your Secretary dated at the Passage of Waterford the 18% inst. which has been laid before His Grace by the Earl of Tyrone, relative to the allowances of staff pay and forage due to that officer (who was directed by Earl Temple to assist the Right Honourable Mr. Cuff in talting'the ilecessary steps to establish the new To14711 of Geneva), His Grace has commanded me to acquaint you that the said allowances to Major Ferrier are incidental expenses which ought properly to be defrayed out of the fifty thousand pounds granted by His Majesty's Letter for the Building the said Town. I therefore inclose to you copies of the Directions given to the Board of Ordnance and dated the 29th and 31% of May last and you will be pleased to give the necessary orders for the payment of what is now due and shall hereafter become due to Major Ferrier accordingly. I am to inform you that Major Ferrier has not received any sums from the Board of Ordnance and that the order of the 31% May to that Board is countermandecl.

I have the Honor to be My Lords and Gentlemen

a Your most obedient Humble Servant

The Genevan Comrnissioi~ers. THO:. ORDE.

(COPY). DUELIN CASTLE,

29th May, 1783. MY LORD & GENTLEMEN,

My Lord ~ i & t . having ordered the Right Honh.!' James Cuff to take the necessary steps 'for establishing a new town in the county of Waterford, and his ~ x c ~ having thought i t necessary' that Major Ferrier should assist Mr. Cuff in this business His E ~ < ~ . desires that you will order Major' Ferrier to attend and assist , Mr. C~lff during said service and to follow such directions' as he shall from time to tiine receive from hiin until1 further orders.

I have, &c., CHA. FR4. SHERIDAN,

Board of Ordnance.

.(COPIT). ORDNANCE OFFICE,

30th May, 1783, SIR,

In obedience to an order from His Excellency .the Lord Lieutenant the Board desire you will attend and assist the Right Honb!." Janles Cuff in establishing a new town in the county of Waterford and follow such directions as you shall from tiine to time receive from him during such service.

1 am, Sir, Your most obedient

Humble Servant H. ShfITH

Maj or Ferrier . Sec?'.tcl the Board.

(COPY). DUBLIN CASTLE,

*31st N a y , 1783. MY LORD gt GENTLEBIEN,

I am commanded by my Lord ~izt to signify to you His ExFy2s desire that Major Ferrier do receive the usual allowances of Field Pay and Forage Money according. to his rank d ~ ~ r i n g the

time he shall be employed ill assisting the Right HO~I!!~ Mr. Cuff in establishing a new town in the county of Waterford as mentioned in my letter of yesterday's date. You are therefore from time to time to make the necessary representation for the same accordingly.

' I have, &c., CHA. FRA. SHERIDAN. '

Board of Ordnance.

DUBLIN CASTLE, . . 27th flh!ardz, 1784.

MY LORDS & GENTLEMEN, I inclose to you herewith by command of my Lord Lieutenant

a memorial, which has been laid before His Grace frorn Mess? J. A. Du Roveray and F. D'Ivernois desiring for the purposes and on the terms therein mentioned a Loan of the sum of Ten thousand . pounds to the Genevans out of the fifty thousand pounds granted by His Majesty, and His Grace desires your opinion whether any thing and what may be properly done therein, and if you shall think that their request may be complied with His Grace desires you will report whether the means by which they propose the said loan to be secured will be sufficient and proper.

I have the Honor to be My Lord & Gentlemen

Your most obedient Humble Servant

~ommission&s appointed for THO?. ORDE. settling the Genevan Emigrants.

(To be contiwed.)


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By P.

A NEW edition of a guide book may not a t first sight seem an important item-viewed either archaeologically or -as literature. The new edition of Murray's "Handbook for Travellers in Ireland, "

revised and edited by Mr. John Cooke, RLA., M.R.I.A., is however quite an exceptional thing in guide boolts, or indeed in boolts on Ireland. At any rate the writer of this page has for years regarded the " and book" as the best general work on Ireland known to hini-well proportioned and indexed, scientifically accurate and written up to date. This new edition, which is sold a t 9s. net, contains many pages of new matter, chiefly archaeological and historical, besides the usual excellent maps, plans, and introduction, I t would, if I may suggest it, be well that in future editions Mr. Coolte dropped the "superior" note, heard, for instance, in his observations on the old name of Portarlington. Why should Cooltetoodera (presuming the Editor has spelled it correctly) be regarded as a "reproach" ? To an Irishman it conveys a meaning and suggests something, while 'Psrtarlington is sound and nothing more !

"PREHISTORIC Faith and Worship : Glimpses of Ancient Irish Life" ondo don, David Nutt), is an exceedingly readable and excellently illustrated work from the pen of our Society member, Canon ffrench of Ferns. This little book is written for the purpose of putting before the public the genial author's various antiquarian views and speculations. The writer's scope and purpose may, perhaps, be made best appear from an enumeration (though imperfect) of his cha.pter headings :-Inscribed Stones and Cup Mai-kings ; Pillar and Holed Stones ; Symbolism of the Cross Before Christ ; Prehistoric Architecture ; On a Manner of Lighting Houses in Old Times by Rush Light Candlesticlts.

TEN parts, Proceedings (Antiquarian) of the Royal Irish Academy have been issued since January 1st ; these comprise :-A Dublin Almanack for 1612 (E. R. McC. Dix) ; The Diary of Bonnivel$, 1690 (R. H. Murray) ; An attempt to Decipher the Phaestos Disc (Professor Macalister) ; A Bronze-Age Interment near Naas (Messrs. Macalister, Armstrong, and Praeger) ; Early Italian Maps of I r e h d (T. J. Westropp) ; Origin of Learned Academies in Modern Europe (Professor Mahaffy) ; Ornamented Bronze Spear Heads and Unpublished Lun~zlae (Geo, Coffey) ; Some Matrices of Irish Seals (Mr. Armstrong), and The "Friday Book" of Dublin (Henry F, Berry). The papersof importance in the current JOURNAL R.S.A.I. are two, both illustrated :-(' Notes on the Pro- montory Forts of Co. Kerry " by Mr. Thos. J. Westroyp, and " The Spiral and the Tuatha De Danann" by Miss Margaret Dobbs.

The enterprise of the Co. Louth Archaeological Society almost jt~stifies application thereto of the epithet-wonderful. I certainly do not understand how they are able so successfully to manage these things in Dundalk. In the December issue of the Journal to hand we have no less than one hundred, and twenty- eight excellently written pages illustrated by twenty-one plates and figures, and including twenty-two papers besides notes;queries, reviews, and miscellania. If excellence of material and " get up' ' were less pronounced it might perhaps excite us towards emulation ; as it is it leaves us only the ignoble luxury of envy. In his interesting and popularly written paper on the Stone and Bronze Ages as illustrated by exhibits in the D~znclalk Museum, Mrl Henry Morris supplies an excellent summary of the present position of prehistoric studies. To Mr. Morris's dates, however, as far too early, the present writer confesses his inability to assent. "The Irish Book Lover" (2s. per ann~zm) maintains its pace and more than maintains its place ; it seems to be, read by every'lover of books in Ireland, at any rate, the present writer has not yet met the Irish bookman who is not familiar with it. Its out-of-the- way information about Irish books, and the men who made, and make, them, may-not inaccurately-be described as phenomenal.

THE American Museum of Natural History (New York) does not confine its sphere of action to the mere collection and. classification

of exhibits. Amongst the activities of the Museum is publication of a monthly Journal and of periodical and occasional reports and memoirs. Many of the recent reports and papers are of great interest and of permanent archzological and anthropological value. I would instance--in recent issues of the Journal-" The Art of the Cave Man" (Dec. 1912) and " The (Quartz) Crystal Sphere" and " C~~ltural Proof of Man's Antiquity" (Jan., 1913). The splendid illustrations are in keeping v i th the Journal's scientific and literary excellence- excellence, no doubt, due to the fact that the writers are all real first-hand authorities and no mere compilers or amateur scientists.

Visitors to our National Museum are familiar with the fine model of the Ruthwell Cross there exhibited in the central court beside the casts of famous Irish crosses. This Ruthwell Cross which, because of its relation to Irish high crosses, possesses much interest for us, has long furnished, in its symbolism, its a r t and its inscriptions, a bone of contention for antiquaries. Its period especially has been hotly questioned and disptlted and, in in the discussions evoked, Irish as well as English authorities have taken part. Now comes-all the way from America-what appears to be the fullest and most critical, and what is, probably, the most authoritative, examination yet attempted of the problems involved. It is "Date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses" (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.) from the pen of Pro- fessor Cook of Yale. The essay consists of one hundred and fifty-one pages, with numerous fine plates and other figures.

AT long last-and after an interval of forty-seven years from his. death-George Petrie is to have a monument. At any rate an influential movement, which owes a good deal of its force to the vigorous help of Mr. P. J. Lynch, &I.R.I.A.,"is afoot to commemorate in some way worthy of its object the life work and labour of the father of Irish archzology. Some months since the movement was inaugurated a t a public meeting in the theatre of the Royal Dublin Society and, in the interval, very considerable progress has been made. It is contemplated to mark Petrie's grave by a Celtic cross or memorial slab (we trust it will not be the former) and to set up in some suitable p~~bl ic space a bust or tablet commemor- ative of the distinguished scholar's services. To raise the necessary

funds for the Memorial a committee has been formed in Dublin, and a subscription list opened. The fund, it is satisfactory to know, already stands at well over £100 ; further donations are solicited and will be thankfully received and acknowledged by the Hon. Treasurers, Count Plunkett, M.R.1 .A. and Dr. Robert Cochrane, M.R.I.A., 6 , St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. It is not perhaps, on the whole, an unmixed evil that Petrie has remained so long apparently neglected ; the interval furnishes a useful perspective in which to see the claims of his memory.

Ancient School Custom in the Co. Waterford.-In "Notes and Queries," London, May 14th, 1859, appeared the following notes contributed by " E.H. " :-

" The Feast of St. Gregory the Great, March 12th, was formerly observed as a holiday and one of festivity in all the rural schools in the Bqronies of Forth and Burgy, the Strongbownian colony, in the Co. Wexford. The children on some days bearing bright contributions according to the means or liberality of their parents, consisting of money, bread, butter, cream, &c., and delivered them to the teacher. On the morning of the joyous day the children repaired to the schoolhouse in holiday dress, where the teacher had everything prepared for the festivity, the simple temple of leaping decorated with the earliest flowers within his means of offering, and the presence of two or more kindheaited females to do the honours and the best of the tea table to the happy juveniles. A 'King and Queen' were nominated, who of course' took the seats of honour, and the proud and'busy teacher was everywhere all attention to his little'pupils. The day passed off in hilarity and innocent amusement, and the competitive system of free offerings generally left something pleasing to tell for some days in the pockets and humble cupboard of the teacher. This custom prevailed until after the commencement of the nineteenth century but is now all but forgotten. "E.H." in conclusion asked was this a mere local custom or was it one brought over by the colonists in 1172, as i t was not observed until then."

J.C.

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The Thunderer of the "Times."-It may. be interesting, to your readers to be told that Captain Sterling', the famous thunderer of the "Times" newspaper was an Irishman, said to

NOTES AND WERIES.

have been born in Waterford, and the son of a clergyman resident in the Cathedral Square of that city. O'Connell used to say of Captain Sterling that he reminded him of the monkey that jumped through three hoops, an allusion I believe to the alleged fact that Captain Sterling was first a member of his father's profession, viz., a clergyman, next a military man, and thirdly a journalist, certainly one of the most trenchant and powerful journalists of his time.

J.C.

The Order of Liberators (Contributed to 'Notes and Queries, "London, 1871-2, by the late Mr. Maurice Lenihan, M. R.I. A.) -The Order of Liberators was a political order or association, instituted in the year 1826, by Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator. I was a very young boy indeed a t the time that O'Connell announced his intention of forming the order, and then he described the badge or medal which each associate was to be distinguished. This was in the summer of 1826, during the memorable contest which Henry Villiers Stuart, afterwards Lord Stuart of Decies, who championed Catholic Emancipation, for whom Daniel O'Connell was engaged as principal counsel, and Lord George Beresford the representative of the Tory anti-Catholic interest of the period. The contest which was severe, protracted, and universally exciting, ended in the overthrow of the Beresfords, and the triumph of young Henry Villiers Stuart, who was returned by a great majority for the Co. Waterford. There was a form observed on the enrol- ment of a member of the Order of the Liberators ; the medal was suspended from a green ribbon which was placed on the neck of the person admitted to membership by the president on the occasion. Everything was done openly, usually a t a public meeting announced for the purpose: I may add that boys and youths were eligible, and that I had the honour of "wearing the green," and triumphing by a medal of the Order of Liberators, when I was about the age of fifteen years. I may remark that 0'Connel12s amouncement of what the medal would be was critically correct in every particular, and that after the lapse of so many years I well remember his words as he spoke from the- balcony of the principal hotel to the immense multitude assembled on the Mall of Waterford.

J.C.

Carsick-on-Suir Superstition.-In Carrick-on-Suir there .

is a curious superstition that it is unlucky to buy brooins in the month of May, and people there will not make purchases of these useful articles during that nionth, saying

" BI-00111s bought in May Sweep the family away."

[Mr. Lenihan says as to the origin of this superstition he failed to elicit ally reply in "Notes and Queries." The brooins here alluded to were probably those made of heather which the country people brought in and sold in the towns, and were very useful when cleaning floors, and more in vogue than is now the case. These heather brooms seem to be no longer made anywhere, and with them has doubtless disappeared this superstition a t Carrick-

The Bishopric of Waterford and Lisrnore in 1686.- There is a very interesting letter from James Strange, Town Clerk of Waterford, to the Duke of Ormonde, in the last published volume of, the Ormonde MSS. (vol. vii.) This letter is dated, Waterford, December 15th, 1686, and is a request from the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Waterford city and diocese to have Ormonde obtain from King James 11 the nomination of Father John Everard, O.F.M., as Bishop of Waterford and Lisinore, Father Everard is described as a native of the city of Waterford, a famous preacher, and a learned man" who printed seven books in vindication of the Catholic Chtlrch," also as one' who had been persistently loyal to King Charles 11, such that he had been cried up by all as "John for the King." As Ormonde was now in disgrace probably this petition never reached the King, and Archbishop Brennan continued to

Chapels Burned in Co. Wexford in 1798-1801.-In your last issue (vol. xvi., No. I), a query is put, in a note to " A Carrick- man's Diary," as to the source of information whence the diarist took his " list of the Chapels burned in Co. Wexford in 1798 and for three years after." The list is taken. bodily from Edward Hay's "History of the Irish Iilsurrection of 1798," but there are a number of typographical errors. The diarist omits two chapels, namely, Ferns, burned on November 18th, 1798, and Kiltealy, on October lst, 1799. Castletown, for which no date is given by the diarist, was burned November 30t11, 1798,

TV. H. GRATTAN FLOOD.

The Waterford Merrys.-In the paper entitled "The Waterford MerrysJ ' [printed in last Journal], I read the following ;

"Cardinal Merry del Val was entrusted in his youth to the care of his ltinsman Captain Merry, then residing in London."

I wish' to say that I deny this statement emphatically and entirely, as my son, Cardinal hlerry del Val, was never under any other care than that of his parents, and he never saw Captain Merry. The Cardinal never left his home, until, when he was eighteen years old, he went to St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, where he remained two years before going to Rome.

RAFAEL MERRY DEL VAL. I

The Merry Family of Waterford.-The paper in last issue on the forbears of Cardinal Merry del Val suggests to me to say that probably hfr. Joseph Xavier Merry of London, on the occasion of his visit to Waterford in search of memorials of the Merry family, did not carry his researches very deep. At any rate memorials of WaterfordLl\lerrys do exist. Here are a couple :

In St. Patrick's graveyard, Waterford, amongst many grave memorials of interest which, at an early date, I propose describing in detail, is a large inscribed slab now 'lying, where it has fallen backwards, close to the jail wall at the western side of the cemetery, and bearing the following :-

" Here lyeth the Body of J O S P ~ Merry who departed this life Novbr lst 1754

aged 70 years. Also the Body of His wife Margaret Merry z s

Dowdle who departed this Life June ye 24th, 1765, aged 64. Also the body of their son Philip who departed

June 24, 1734, aged 19 yrs. Also the body of lfargaret Merry

a grand daughter to the above ~ 0 s ~ ~ " &c., &c. I ' Joseph &terry, above-mentioned, had a son John, who was

born in 1714 as appears from the following entry i11 the 'handwriting of Father John Higgins, S. J., in the old baptismal r+gister of St. Olave's Church, Waterford :-

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" Ego Joames Higgins baptizavi Joannem heri natum &urn legitimum Josephi Merry et Margaritae Dowda'll de parochia St' Olai, Sept. 4, 1'714." P.

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of Pilltown, Go. Waterford.-The following drawn up by Sir William Betham, sometime Ulster pedigree was

King at Arms, and is coniidered worth publishing in the Journal. It is copied from his MS. collection now in the British Museum. These pedigrees mostly relate to families first settled in Ireland in the sixteenth century, and but a few to Irish and Norman-Irish families.

Ruth, daur. - - of Robert Pyphoe, of

Mary's Abbey, Dublin, Esq.,

by Kynborough, . . .his wife. I

The Right Hon. Sir Nicholas - - Jaccpet, daur. Walsh, Imight, Lord Chief of Slr Anthony

Justice of the Cotnmon Pleas Colclough, ot in Ireland, Tinterne Abbey

Knighted 30 October, 1597, by in Co. exf ford: Sir Thomas Norries. L, Just. Knt., born 15

Will dated 9 h'larch, 1613; Sept. 1555; died p rove 10 April. 1615 (?). without issue.

Died 12 April, 1615.

~ i ~ h o l a ; Walsh, - - Mary, daur. of Sir

JAMES BUCKLEY.

of Pdtown. (Natuml Son of S ~ I * Nicholas),

in the Co~rnty of Waterford, Esq.

l'homas' Walsh - Ellen, daur. ~ i & c e ~ d h m Jatkes Mary h'alsh, ~ a i t h a , I -

,C Piltown, E&: - of John Lord Walsh, Walsh, Walsh, wife of Nugent. wife of wife wife

Thomas Colclougb, of Tinterne Abbey,

in Co, Wesford, lint.

\Will dated -. I proved 1667.

Power, of died died died Will~am of of Cun~aghtnore. ssp. uamd.' young. Harpole, Kennedy. Walsh.

of Shule. ) I I I I I John Walsh Nicholas Robert' Walsh = Mary, dater. of Valentine. -

died Walsh, died of ~ i l t own , ES~:, I Butler, died / yithout without died intestate. intestate. Adm. ISSUB. issue. Administration 11 July. 1724. ; 1

23 June, 1713. 1 1 1 I James. Nicholas.

-Mary, wife of Morgan Kavanagh, of Eorres, 2nd Derby Long.

-Catharine, wife of John Warren, of Carlow.

-Ruth, wife OF - Kennedy, of Pill Lane, Dublin.

-Ellen Walsh.

i Valentine. Thomas halsh , = Catharine, daur. i Rob&. ,of Piltown,Esq., made a deed to Pras. Bernard, 1 24 June, 1724.

another of set-

of- 2. Pierce. 1. 3. Robert. Elizabeth wifep I 4, George. of ~ u n n e & or 2.

Funatseep. Ellen, tlement 16 and

1 17 July, 1724, -- Walsh.

I i Robert Walsh Willia~n Stewat~t

of ~iltowts, ES;, Walsh.

JOURNAL OF :THE WATERFORD G SQUTH.EAST

OF IRELAND I

ARCHEOLOGICAL '

SOCIETY.

THIRD QUARTER, I

JULY TO SEPTEMBER, 1913. 1

THE POWER PAPERS.

A Chapter from the life of a Clonmel Family in the Penal Days.

Edited by THOMAS A. MURPHY, B.A.

the following letters, taken from the Renehan papers in the College Library at Ri'aynooth, we get a most interesting glimpse into the life of an Irish Catholic family of the middle class in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, while the Penal Code was still in force. By law denied the means of education a t home 'a Catholic young man was obliged to' seek i t beyond the seas. The letters are written to Thomas

Power, M.D. of Clonmel and Tallow, from his brother Canon James Power of Cassel (in Flanders), from his sons the Rev. Edmond Power of the Society of Jesus, Frank Power, afterwards Vice- President of Maynooth College ; Peter Power, an officer in the Irish Brigade ; John or Jack Power, a medical student and afterwards a military officer, and by his daughter, Amy Power, an invalid a t Paris and St. Ainand. A few letters are addressed to Kitty Power another daughter of Dr. Thomas, by her uncle, the Canon, and her brothers, Revs. Edrnond and Frank Power.

The brothers Canon James and Dr. Thomas Power had evidently been educated on the Continent, having gone there as 'poor scholars,' like many young Irish men of their position a t the time. I&'hat. kind the life of a poor scholar was n7e can con-

< clude from what the Canon says to Dr. Thomas when writing about their nephew Tom Bray-"none can judge better of the distressed condition of a poor scholar in a foreign country than ourselves, which still strikes so great a horror in me that I ever shall have an eversion to involve any of my kinde in it." James Power, having taken Holy Orders, remained abroad, becoming in time a Canon Prebendary of Cassel and Chaplain to the French Ambassador a t Rome. Thomas Power returned to practice medicine in his native land. Margaret or 'Peggy' Bray was a sister of theirs, married to Mr. John Bray, a merchant of Fethard, ,Co. Tipperary. He is so styled at least, in his certificate of enroll- ment, signed by Lord Caher, in the Confraternity of St. Paul, Clonmel, in the year 1733 (nide Dr. Renehan's Irish Archbishops). Her son Tom Bray, of whom we find first mention in the letters as a "genteel, sprightly, promising lad," was the future Archbishop of Cashel. Frank Bray was probably a brother of his. Pierce or Peter and, Joe were evidently two other brothers of Mrs. Bray.

Edmond, whose letters point him out as an earnest, serious and pious priest, was a member of the Society of Jesus at a time when the fortunes of that illustrious body were at their lowest ebb. Having for so long enjoyed the affection and esteem of peoples, kings, and popes, the Order was on the point of suppression when he joined it. In 1744 we find Edmond writing to his sister, Kitty, thanking her for trying to make him a Parish Priest in Ire- land. He must have been almost a complete invalid and for such a one to embrace the l.ife of a Jesuit a t the time, no mean share ,of fortitude was necessary. He refers to the reward offered for the caytiire of Father Sheehy in one of his letters.

The next brother, Frank, became a secular priest, being ordained for the Irish mission-Diocese of Cloyne and Ross, the Bishop of which at this time was Dr. O'Brien. He, however, decided to stay in France in order to take up his uncle's benefice. Why he chose the Diocese of Cloyne rather than his native Water- ford is not clear. He was a native of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. At any rate his home was there ; there his father practised his

profession and in t h ~ vicinity lay the family property. His rcfer- ences to Dr. Egan, 1~110 was appointed Coadjutor to Dr. Creagh, Rislmp of Waterford, as his father's c u d , go to show his connection with Clonmel. He refers to Dr. Butler, Bishop of Cork (1763-87), afterwards Lord Dunboyne, as a friend of his.

, The y o ~ ~ n g Charlie Keariley of whom we find inention in his letters became subsequently Rector (1783-1800) of the Irish College, Paris ; befoi-e that he had been nominated Vicar-General of the Diocese of Tarbes. The Abbi Kearney was associated with Abb6 Edgeworth and others in a plot to effect the escape of Louis S V I from the hands of the Revolutionaries. Their scheme ho~vemr was discovered, thc Irish College was attacked and its president was captured and imprisoned in a dungeon for three yeaTs ; he was saved from the guillotine by Camille Desmoulins, whom he had at one tiinc befriended. Dr, I(ellj7, whose name also occurs in the letters, was Rector of the Irish College from 1 769-1 777.

When the Royal College of St. Patrick at Maynooth, was established in the year 1795, Rev. Frank Power became its first Vice-President, In 1798 he became Procurator as well as Wcc- President, and in addition he acted as Dean. The records of the college ~7~1-e also kept by him. In 1802 hc gave up his position as Bursar to take up the professorship of French instead. When Dr. Husscy became Bishop of Waterford he continued to retain '

the presidency of 11\4aynooth though the active duties of the office appear to have been discharged by the Abbe Power. I11 1797, for exam ple, when Earl Cailzclen, the Lord Lieutenant , visited the college it was the vice-president who received him. He resigned his offices in 1810 and died in 1816 a t the ripe age of eighty-two. He was the first person buried in the college cemetery, and his tombstone styles him-" Hujus Caemeterii Hospes Primus. "

Jack Power, who had no talents for study, and no inclination for the Church, was evidently the 'rake' of the family for a while. He seems however to have been a favourite with all a t t the same time. He and his brother, Peter or Pierce, were both officers in the Irish Brigade which, at this time owing to difficulties of getting

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recruits from Ireland, was beginning to break up. The sister, Amy, although an invalid, appears to have had

a good ded of influence in the French world. Thus she destines

Jack for a con~inission in the army ; she gets her uncle dispensed for a whole year from attendance at his chapter meetings, and obtains for him the position of Chaplain to the French Ambassador in preference to five hundred other applicants.

The letters throughout refer to a family law s ~ ~ i t which was being conductecl before the .Ecclesiasflcal Courts at Avipon. The whole trial seems to have been carried on by Canon James and Dr. Thomas Power to establish their claim to the Chateau St. Yatrice ancl vineyards thereto attached. Their eldest brother, John Power, sold the family property-the lands of Sellaheen, Bawnfoun, ancl Glasha, near Clonmel, in Co. Waterforc1,-without consulting Thomas who was of age at the time and whose consent to the sale should have been given.' This fact seems to have been urged at Avignon as evidence that he had given up his right

. to the family property altogether. The reason that the case was carried on before an ecclesiastical

tribunal and that the references are to an appeal to thc Rota rather than to a Civil High Court is that Avignon at this tinie belonged to the Popes. For seventy years the Popes from. Clement V to Benedict XI11 lived at Avignon and held tempold and spiritual jurisdiction there. After the Restoration of the Holy See to Rome the spiritual ancl temporal government of Avignon was entrusted to a Legate, thc Cardina.1-Nephew, or in his absence to a Vicc-Legate. Innocent X I in his war on nepotism, abolished the office of Legate ancl handed over the Government in 1692 to the Congregation of Avignon, the President of which v7as the Cardinal Secretary of State. This Congregation resided at Rome and exercised its j~~risdiction through the Vice-Legate at Avignon, from whom appeals were made to the- Congregation at Rome. Towards the end of the eighteenth century Avignon was annexed to the French Empire and the Popes. gave up all claims to it. Cardinal Corsi~li who interested himself on behalf of the Powers was the Cardinal-Protector of Ireland at this time.

\i\'ith th&e f& words by 1t7ay of introduction, I will allow the letters to speak ~&.he~ns&cs. I have copied them word for word as they are in the MSS., and have made no change as to spelling, arrangement, &c. They are evidently mere sumiliaries- of the original documents.

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THE POWER PAPERS. [Lent to Rev. Dr. Refrahan for perusal, Gc., ilz 1849, and by J z z m

copied and summarised. . These letters extend from 1759 to 1775 afzdsome to mz even h ter date zmk~,own. U d e s s otherwise specified the letters are from Revd. James Power to Jzis brother Thomas.]

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I. 1762, Sept. lst, Cassel (in French)-Lent money to Frank (a)

who had to get a hundred livres for his vacation from Wolf the Banker a t Paris on my acct. He.mas with me here 15 days and consoled me niuch by his talcnts. I tried to persuade him to leave the Society, representing its present unfortunate circuinstances, the wants of his family, and niy resolution to put him here into my own situation. He replied, that in no circumstaiices could he aspire to more than tb be happy and content, 6. he was so in the Society-that if he quit it remorse wd. for ever Beep him unhappy-that if his Province which they did not apprehend, werc clissolved he wd. accomodate himself to necessity-and as to the 2nd motive he said it was very just, but it was for Francis to attend to it and accept the benefice, and when I said that Francis may be otherwise disposed, he said if so he would cordially yield his assent.

Jack has no talents for study, nor inclination for the Ch~~rch. Amy destines him for the Army. I agreed to that in Paris,. but since find the officers here are Libertines and spend beyond their means. Set him to a trade, say an apothecary in Ireland-he wishes himself to be an Irish farmer.

I was obliged to leave Avignoii (before obtaining the Decree of possession) on the 29th May in order to be here on St. John's Eve, & that in order to save my prebend f r p q designs upon it on acct. of my absence. Though the judgk ~rornisednle a decree in 15 days nothing has been done since 'I left. I t is necessary to be on the spot and I shd. wish to return there, but my chapter

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( a ) Frank is evidently written here in error for E d m o n d . - ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ , JOURNAL. .

refuses me permission unless by forfeiting the distributions which are half my revenue, and I am ashamed to meet my creditors there without some money. My wine is very excellent and cheap at k7 a vessei. Dispose of some of it in Ireland.

11. 1762, Nov. 21, Cassel (in French), " JJAi requ," etc.-Received

Thos. letter and sent it to Frank who will no doubt follow his father's arrangement. Now do not neglect Jack. Amy was delayed a t St. Arnand until the 18th inst. for want of money to pay her bills. She was to be in Paris to-day, after I raised money for her on my bill. My return to Avignon is quite necessary for our law s~rit there, but I have not money to go there, pay my bills and prosecute the suit. I wrote to brothers Peter and Joseph, but almost expect no aids from them. Send me money. Send me speedily the affidavit sworn before a notary in the following form-Thos. Power, Esq., M.D., established in Clonmel in Ireland, aged 64 years, (or more if you be older) came before me on this day and swore on the Gospels that he never consented by himself or by any pro,xy to the sale of the lands of Glashy, Baunfoun, Sellaheen and other properties of the family, made by his eldest brother John Power, and did not even know of said sale for some time after it was made, he being then a t his studies in Paris, (add if true) and also swears that he was before the date of said sale in December, 1722, of the full legal age of 21 years. Get two witnesses, that can, to swear to your age and absence at the time of sale. Let the act be in Latin, if not, let the Cur4 translate it and attest that no register of Baptisms or Deaths has been kept in the parish. If you cannot get two that could so swear to your age, etc., perhaps you could get a certificate of i t from Mr. Butler of Cashel [the ABC. ? j and if not from the Cur6 of Clonmel from information he can have in that tocvn.

111. 1763, Jan. 17., " Je etc."-Our suit a t Avignon is gained. The

Decree giving us the possession and the property was passed Dec. 15, 1762. Rut they can appeal 1st to a Tribunal in Avignon

and 2nly after that to Eonle. These appeals, however, will not prevent us (as we have been hitherto prevented) from possessing and enjoying the property & turning it to good account. Some of us must stop there. The vineyard wants great repairs, for notre a i d John was not there for 14 years before his death, and little ~o l l i n to whose care he left it took more care to enrich himself out of i t and let i t go to ruin. I suppose it is I must go there. Then money to pay the costs of suit & to repair. Peggy ,and Bray must join you in sending me a Power of Procuration to manage ancl even to sell it if I please-or if Bray does not confide in me so far, let him limit the powers. Ned is already employed in the ministry in the h o ~ ~ s e of a Mr. Sheldon of Weston in Oxfordshire, whence you have of course received letters from him.

IT'. 1763, Feb. 24. " Since your last, etc." (English) .-An appeal

to the Roman Rota lodged against our Decree. I must go there to Rome. Want money. Br. Peter promised to bring or send me nest May £80 with which the wine if sold will help-or do.-- Poor Bray has written to me complaining of his distress and saying that without speedy aid from m e he must quit Ireland and come to join me at Avignon. He clearly mistakes the estate for a great estate ins Ireland. You must remember i t since you were in that country : but if not, listen : it consists of "a very fine house" built by Madame de Senozan which cost her /$,000-a fancy of her's, which was too large to be kept up ancl after her death lay waste till Br. Jack bought it for 10,000 livres. He paid 6,000, and the house has to pay a rent of 200 livres to Marquis cle Montfrin as the interest a t 5 p. ct. on the unpaid balance 4,000 livres. .

Jack then bought by degrees about 40 acres of vineyard which has to pay rent of 200 livres more p. year. Two years' rent was due of both when I entered on possession. Moreover I must expend y. year 1,000 livres for dressing the vines, 300 or 400 more for charges, vessels, etc., and all this with the costs of the lawsuit have left me deeply in debt. The whole concern of Chatearl St. Patrice, if sold out now there, wd. not bring more there than 12,000 livres, but I was offered 50,000 livres for it a year ago, and if we manage it well it would carry I hope 80,000 or 100,000 livres,

Lord Dumbar, Stafford, and others write to press me to go to Rome, but I cannot certainly before next June.

Our nephew Frank Bray has just arrived at Avignon, sent there to me for his health & to dissipate his scruples by the Congreg. de Propaganda, which orders him back to their college when he is recovered. He is in want of linen (which were procured him by Stafford at my cost, tho' I understood Propaganda to promise all that) and everything, but is very promising and has the best testimonials of conduct. Apologise to poor Bray for my peevish answer. I know not where to find a place for his son Tom except with our friend Kelly (Irish College, Paris), and that I can't attempt till we are out of his books. You experienced these things yourself and explain them to poor Bray. His son Pat is in Spain reduced to a simple Cadet, & in great want. He deserves a better fate. Amy and her brothers are in Paris. She -is worlting to secure my living here for me while absent. Send me the affidavit I asked, Pt a new Deed of being Proxy to you (and Peggy) Bray.

v. 1763, May 6th.-Br. Pierce parted me the 1st Inst. to return

to Jersey. He promised to come to me to Avignon nest Autumn to attend our farm while I attend the suit. Having money, language and'skill and without any children he yd. be of great service, and has great good nature and zeal for the cause. Poor Joe repents his conduct to you. Forgive l-rim as I do his offences to me & as <ve expect to be forgiven. I was confined all the winter to my house with dartre in my right leg. I am now better and hope to be able to travel in July.

I t is not true, as Bray thinks, that Propaganda will pay the charges of his son Frank a t Avignon. He came there very naked with only a bad coat and two old shirts. His superiors brought him there to Mr. Stafford who clothed him at h y acct. and cost. What can I do pow for poor Peggy and the Brays ? When all is settled, and the debts.,and advances for the suit paid "I shall then with great pleasure take Tom Bray to my charges, but till then it wd. be madness in him or in anybody else to lay their dependance on me, tho' I could really wish he was$put early to some trade where he may be sure to pass his days with more com-

fort than to follow his books in misery. I told you enough of this in my last . . . . , . . . none can judge better of the distressed condition of a noor scholar in a foreign country than

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ourselves, which still strikes so great shall have an eversion to involve any

a horror in me that I ever one of my kincle in it. " .

1763, Aug. 14, Casse1.-Br. Pierce has not written or sent the help he promised to send before now. Ravanagh has raised 3,000 livres for me on interest. I sold all my furniture, and with these aids I start for Avignon on the 25th Inst. If Pierce come t o me there with aid, as Bray expects he will, I may then go 011

to Rome. Amy goes to St. Amand. Frank received your remit- tance. I shall see yr. Pierce at Cambray on my way to Paris. I shall do when I reach Avignon what Bray asks of me for his son Franli. (A great deal about quality, quantity, and sale of his wine at £6 6s.Od. taken a t Kavanagh's, Dunkirk).

VII. 1763, Aug. 22., Casse1.-Amy and Pierce a t St. Amand. Frank

wanted clothes till Amy gave hiin £4 of your gift to her. No account yet from Br. Pierce. I start for Avignon on the 28th inst. I sold off all my m6nage. Brajr shall hear from me at Avignon a s soon as I know what to do with his Frank.

VIII. No date (about Dec. 1763), (in Frehch) .-I told you of ply

intended departure from tassel [22/8/63] and wrote to you then from Paris about all your children, and told you of my intention of and preparations for travelling to Rome. Little Bray - [Frank] has spoiled all. An evil star brought him here last winter from Propaganda sick and naked. Mr. Stafforcl '&d Lord Dumbai- -pressed me to take him up. Mr. Stafford gave him clothes and medical trcatrnent a t my cost. He was put into the college here at a pension of 1; louis per month. He became extravagant and irregular in conduct. Stafford admonished him and stopped

giving him money. He came near Stafford no more but com- plained to the College Superiors and they gave him money. To escape t o Ireland before I should come here he went to Lord Dumbar who asked the College Superiors to enable him to go home. They fitted him out, hired a chaise for him to Toulouse a t 50 dollars and gave himself 50 more and an order to college there to furnish him on to Boul-deaus, as well as a letter of credit on Bourdeaux to meet the outfit there and the voyage to Ireland. He left College on the 7th of September, borrowed El0 of an English or Irish Lady at Toulouse, went- and stopped at an Inn at Bourdeuax at a crown a day, where the Superiors of a collegc there to whom the college here, not knowing what had become of him after he reached Toulouse wrote to search for him, found him and put him into the Irish College at 20 sous per day, 'till they could ship him for Ireland. He was in college here 7 months, forged a bill on Mr. Ford which was not honoured, borrowed money wherever he could here, and I an1 hindered by these debts which 1 must pay, from being able to go to Rome. His parents must watch the villain.

I have not yet heard from Br. Pierce. My integrity seems suspected by some of the family. If I lookecl to myself only, what ccl. I desire to make my condition more happy than it was. And now my devotion to the family has left me in this world njter being a Canon for 21 years, zaitkozd money or fz~nziture except om bed, if I lose, and until I gain this suit. Have you yet paid Mr. Kelly ? If not, and if you be not able tell him so at once. Your Jack is not the first that has lived on the funds of the college without afterwards embracing the Church of which they are not able to judge 'till they have passed the low classes. You have a better claim as yo11 paid for Frank in the low classes who did become an ecclesiastic, and also as our cousin, Miss Power (at least her sister treats me as and calls me her cousin) the sister'of the Tjrsuline Nun has given the Paris college 30,000 livres with all her plate and furniture.

I apprehend that Jack must immediately leave his community. I asked Mr. Kelly to keep him another year and I'd pay his pension but I got no answer. Take him home, then let him learn science and send him to take a medical degree in Edinburgh where he can do it cheaper ancl \rith less risk to his morals than in Paris.

IX. 176-1, May 15th. Chateau St. Patrice [Avignon].-Br. Pierce

died last 26th March leaving all his substance (in Jersey) to his . widow. I'm greatly grieved not only at the loss to us of his not:

coining here to manage the Estate as hc and I agreed, but chiefly' because I fear for his soul. He promised me to look to it in Jersey but I fear.

I had an excellent letter from Poor Frank full of that generous; , and disinterested spirit so worthy of himself and of his state wherein

he is soon to take the last step. He wavers between taking my place and the Irish mission and desires more time for reflection.

(To be colttifihed).

MATERIAL CONDITION OF T H E CHURCHES OF

W ATERFORD.

By REV. P. POWER.

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HE report printed herewith from a T.C.D. MS. (Reeyes, 1066) will serve as a supplement to the visitation of Archbishop . Miler i\llcGratl~ (published in JOURNAL

for October, 1909, and Jan~~ary, 1910) and Mayor Leonard's report on the city churches (published in JOURNAL for. April, 1911). ,By aid of the present document, which fortunately is dated, we are able to fix the period at' which decay and collapse of our pre- Reformation churches took place. Cost of repair it

will be remembered was divided in certain fixed proprtions between parishioners and beneficed clergy. Broadly speaking the clergy were responsible in Waterkd diocese for the upkeep of the chancel and the people for repair of the nave. I t is evident that already, by beginning of the seventeenth century, the work of ruin had made considerable progress. Towards middle of the century- mentioned the Irish were able in many instances, to seize on the fabrics but they were too distracted by the troubles of the time, and their tenure of the buildings was too brief, to allow them to do much by way of repair. Possibly some isolated similar seizures took place in the eighties of the same century, but by middle of

the century following the once sacred' edifices had been reduced practically to the condition of neglect, if not of ruin, in which we find them to-day. The document now printed purports to be "The Presentment of the Diocess of Waterford" (1615) and is sub-headed-"The answers to the ~nterrogatories prop6undecl by his Mate Commissioners touchinge the state of the Churches of the dioy of Waterford." The prescntment of the Diocese of Zjsmore is reserved for next issue.

1. We finde that thc Churches of St Mychaell and St Olaves are ruinous and in decaye both iil theire boddyes and Chancells, the boddyes to be builded by the Fishioners and the Chancells by the Deanc. / and the cure to be dischardged by the Dcane is cui-at.

We find the Churches of St Fetss & St Patricks out of reperacon in boddy and Chancell the boddyes to be builded by the Ssh- ioners, the Chancell of St Petrs by the Archdeacon. and the cure by him lo be dischardged, / the Chancell of St Patricks b y the prebendary thrarof and the cure by hiin to be clilischardged.

We find the Cathedrall Church well repaired except James Rices chaple wCh is thc chardge of the Deane and Chapter, and now undertaken by Mr. Nycholas Maddan t,o be buildek in dischardge of such rents as thc said Nycholas doth owe of arreradges to the Deane and Chapter. / And the said Cathedrall ohght t o be served with the foure prelates, foure prebendaries foure Chaplaynes for the prelates, an organist, and a sexfin, and twoe or three Chaplynes out of St Saviors Chaple, as the Ghaple may beare accorclinge the revcnue thereof / And twoe or three Chaplynes out of Rices Chaple, as the revenue may beare, Ancl the Deane tied to beare the Cure of sodes in the said Cathe- drall as we finde.

Tile Churches of the hospital1 and the lazar house well repaired and the church of St, Johns repaired, but a litle *mine in the Chancell by the rlefaulte of John Wise fennor to the kinge. So inrich for the churches within ~ a t e r f d r d .

The Church pf ~ i lbu%e in bod* and Chancell is downe to the grouncle, the boddy to be repaired by the Cishioners, and the Chancell by the Deane, as wce finde.

The Church of the prebend of I<ilcaragh uncovered in the boddy and Chancell, the parishioners to repaire the boddy, and the prebendary, the deane, to repaire the Chancell.

We finde the Church and Chancell of Kilinedan is uncovered in the roufe, the Church to be builded by the parishioners, and the Chancel1 by the Deane and Chapter, and viccar. / the cure dischardged by Morish Harnye.1

We finde the Church and Chancell of Iiilmoc~m, in parte of the Church untiled and the chancell uncovered, the $shioners to repaire the Church, and the Deane and Chapter to repaire the Chancell, and the cure dischardged by the Chancellor.

We fincle the Church of Kilmcteage repaired, and the tembers of the Chancell upp uncovcrcd, being the Chancelllors prebend, who is to repaire the same, and the Chancellor to dischardge the Cure.

TYe find the boddy of the Church of Lisnekill in the rufe downe in oui: memory and the roufe of the Chancell fallen and broken downc by Shouldiors, and made fire of it, a t the Lo: Lieutenant is returne from the seigh of IGlsale. The said Lisneltill being the Thresurers prebend.

The church. of Iiieske is repaired, but'parte of the Chancel1 is uncovered by the defaulte of the Kinge mate tenant in St Catherins being part6 in the psonadge thearof, and the Cure dischardged b37 Thomas Quoain.

The clmrch of Balligonner newly builded, except two smale cGples in the chancell, and as we finde it to be builded by the Deane and Chapter, and the Chancell of Ballinakill latly fallen, and to be builded by the pson and prebendary thearof, the Cure dischardged by the Chancellor.

The Church of Kiloteran is downe in the boddy both roufe and wale, the Sshioners chardged with the reparacon, the chancel1 is repaired, and who doth dischardge the cure we lcnowe not. / The Church of Kilbarry is repaired in boddy and Chancell, and who the cure is dischardged we knowe not.

The Church of the prebend of Kilronan is downe both boddy and Chancell. The prebendary chardged with the reparacon of '

the Chancell.

The church and chancell of Croolx repaired.

The Churches of IGloure, Drovvmcaiiaii, and Ilanikean are i-uinns, the parishioners chardged with the repara& of the bodies, & thc kinge tenant SF Richard Ailward chargded with thc reparacon of the Chancells. The cure dischardged by Morish 'E-Iarnye. / And the Church of Foilinge well repaired, & the cure dischai-dged, by Thomas Quoan. The church of Kilbridy, as we finde, is downe, in the roufe both boddy and chancell, the parishioners chardgcd with the build- inge of the boddy, and the ICinge mate'" tenant for the bnildinge of the Chancell,' being a church of late fouiide consealed for the Kinge. Sr Richard Ailwarde tenant.

2. To the second interrogatory. We fi.nde the deanry by taxe worth xx" 11- and vallued as we fiiide yearly xl" ster.

The Chantorship, as we \finde by taxe is" ancl yearly valued xx" ster.

The Chancellorship is we finde by taxe x" and yearely valued as we esgme it xxviijli ster.

Tlie Tresurership by taxe x" and valued, as we finde and estcme i t sx" ster.

The Archdeaconry by taxe as we thinlie vi" yearely valued, we kno~v not . The Prebend of St. Patriclces by taxe as we thineke vij", yearely value, we knowe not. ,

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Tlie ~ r e b e n a of Kilronan the taxe we liiiow not, yearly valued, as we heire, xl' stel-.

The Prebend of Corbally the taxe we knowe not, yearly valued as we lieire, x" ster.

The Prebend of BalliinCkill by taxe a nlarke, yearly valued as we heire iij" ster.

The Prebend of Rosdnie by taxe we knowe not, yearly value as we esteilne it xxS ster.

The Prebend of ~a I . l i~Ger by taxe i x s . In yearly valued as we esteime it iiij.li ster.

The ~ o n i z i d r ~ of Crookc, the valuation we lurowe not, ,

The Cornandry of Kilbarry the valuation we knowe not.

The Cornandry of Iiiloure with the members thearol the valuation weknow not. ,

The Priory of St Catherines, the valuation we ltnowe not.

The Priory of St John's, the valuation we ltnowe not.

The livinge of the Lazar house, the valuation we / ltnowe not.

The livinge of the hospitale of the Hollyghost is the people is devozn.

The numbe.r of the livings, as we remember, are answered in the first and second Interrogatorys.

3. To the thirde Interrogatory, we knowe no livings united in this dioces, but of late an union made by the lo: Archbp: of the Archdeaconry of Waterforcl and the Prebend of St Patriclts which union is not confirmed by the Deane and Chapter / And an union of the Vicaradges of Killea and Rathmoellan tyme out of mynde to the Chancellorship as we finde by antiquity. / No more unions, as far as we remember.

\Ire finde that the Prebend of Kilronan is leasecl by one Mr Clavell who was imcumbent thearof, to the use of Paul Shear- loclte and confirmed by Milerus lo: Archbp., & Deane and Chapter, who longe sithence wee know not. y Z l y reserved xxiiijs iiijd as we thinlte.

The psonadge of ~al l igoser leased by the Deane and Chapter to one Thomas. Clere and as we thincke som xxtie yeares agoe. Yearly rent iiij"

A lease of the prebend of Corbally let by Morish Quoan to the use of one Morish Oboe, and confirmed by the busshop and Deane and Chapter and as we thincke som x. years agoe. Rent sxxijs, as we thincke.

The Prebend of Ballicashin leased by M' John Burgoyne Chantor with Consent of the Deane and Chapter to the use of one Josias Kinge, and as we thincke som two yeares agoe. Yearly rent, as we thinclce iijl"

We finde the tyeth of a villadge named Stonehouse in the parish of Kilmedan is leased by the Deane and Chapter to John Quoan

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the younger, / and as we thinclie some tcwe yeares agoe. Yearly rent xS

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We finde that the tyethes of the C O ~ O lande of Waterford was leased by the Deane and Chapter to one James Garraltine of Waterford iiiarchand/ And as we thincke som towe yeares agoe. Yearly rent iiijti xs ster.

We finde that the psonadge of IGlbarmedin in the di& of Lismore being pcell of the Chantors livinge leased by the Deane and Chapter to Walter Shearlocke of Waterford, and Nycholas Wise of the same Aldermen. Rent vili as as we thincke. We finde a lease lett of the particle of Balliglassin in the d iG of Lisrnore aforesaid by the Deane and Chapter and nowe in the occupa& of Walter Shearlocke of Waterford, and as we heire lett some ten yeare agoe. Rent x.s yearly.

No more leaies as wee remember of any spiralltyes, but such as are resitied, as afore specified.

4. To the fourth Interrogatory we finde the Deane is ferrnor or atturney resident upon the Deane is livinges, and his Cures in the Citty and subburbes dischargded by William iVl0rrish.l And his Cures in the diocese dischardged by Morish Harney.

We finde the Chantor resident in Waterford.

We finde the Chancellor resident upon his prebend in the contry, and the cure of his several1 churches dischardged by him selfe, and his Curats William Fitz David and Lyne o Morrochowe, lawfull ministers.

We' finde the Thresurer resident upon his livinge, and doth dischardge the cure thearof, by him selfe.

As for a@ to take parte or parcel1 in theire livinges in all as afore specified we lrnowe nowne, but the fermors named in the thirde Interrogatory.

5. To the fifth Interrogatory we esteime and thincke the Deane to be ordered accordinge his Mate lawes ecclesiasticall, when and by whom, we lrnowe not.

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We finde the Chancellor to be ordered accordinge his Mate lawes - ecclesiastical1 by the lo : primat of Ardmagh some xxxiij yeares

ago.

We finde the Thresurer to be ordered accordiiige his Mate lawes ecclesiasticall, by the lo: Archbu: of Cashell, some ten yeares ago.

We esteime and thincke the Archdeacon to be ordered accordinge his Mate lawes ecclesiasticall by whom and when we knowe not.

We finde no churches voide, to or knowledge and remTbrance, but the Church of the prebend of Kilronan for whow many yeares, we ltnowe not. Paule Sherlocke received the fruite. The lo : busshop patron.

We finde the prebend of Corbally to or ltnowledge voide, for who longe tyme, we ltnowe not. The fruites receaved by the heires of Thomas Walsh / the lo: busshop patron thearof.

6. We finde no more scole mars to teach publicke scholes in this dioces but Mr Flahie ; and do not find that he comes to ,Church,

. a t the tymes of divine service, or sermons.

Leasses let of the Busshopps temporall lande in the dioc. of Waterford, as followeth :

The towne and lande of Kilronan let by Busshop Walsh as we thincke. / and nowe in the occupEon of Paule Shearlocke. yearely rent as we thincke xxS

The lease of the towne and lande of Busshops Courte, lett by Busshop Walsh for yeares yett to contynue, at the yearly rent of xlS

The town and lande of ~ i l c a r a ~ h lett by Busshop Walsh for yeares yett to continue, a t the yearely rent of xxs and a lease in reversion of the same, let of late by the lo: Archbu: to Harry Walsh a t the yearely rent we knowe not.

The towne and lande of Ballingarran lett by the lo : Archbu : t o the use of James Shearloclte at the yearly rent of xx" as we thincke.

The townes and lande of I<ilmcteage and both Kelogs leased by Busshop Walsh to James Walsh of Waterford Alderman a t the yearly rent of iiij!' The Chamberbers and housses adjoin- inge to the Busshops house. / yearely rent as we thincke xS

We finde that all the Deane and Chapter is temporal1 lande are leased tyme out of memory, and to the yearely valuacon as we esteime it ; of xl" a yeare

And of late a lease in reversion let by the Deane and Chapter of two tenements in St Patricke's to the use of James Gerraltyne and Patricke Meiler, as of the Deane is lande. The yearly rent we know not. This much at this present as we remember concerninge the Interrogatories.

I t is hardly necessary to explain that KilmCteage above= Kilmacleage, that Keiske = Reiske and that Rathmoellan and Balligoner = Rathmoylan and Ballyguniier respectively: Bally- glassin (Ballyglasheen) is a townland in the parish of Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary.

"SUNDRIE PRIESTS A N D FRIERS"4610.

By REV. P. POWER.

Trinity College Library, Dublin, is a folio MS. volume (MS. E. 3, 15) which throws a tlseful light on the condition of the legally proscribed Church in Ireland at the opening of the seventeenth century. Sheriffs, &c., had evidently been instructed t o report on priests and religious resident in the country, and the pages of our NS., which is evidently official and cotemporary, bear testimony that they fulfilled

their orders-especially in the south. The lists furnished are very interesting-particularly interesting when we meet such a name ;as "Doctor Keating," in the bearer of which we recognise the father of 1rish history. I herewith present the lists for the city of Waterford and for the counties of Waterford, Tipperary, and Wexford. I have not been able to discover anything of the history of the MS. As title of the volume, "Valor ~eneficio&," suggests, i t is primarily an estimate of episcopal, prebendial, and parochial revenues made in 1591 by two commissioners named Hyde and Mounsloe. With these revenue returns various lists of " Romish" clergy and laity, copies of intercepted letters from Catholic Bishops, &c., &c., are bound up. The documents are of various dates, but, very fortunately for us, most of the latter are given.

The first list (city of Waterford) is dated June, 1610, and is headed "The names of such priests as are resident in Waterford and the houses they lodge in, ' and is endorsed " Priests iusuits, kc., in Waterford and in whose houses lodge." I am not quite sure that I have in all cases correctly deciphered. the name : .where the latter is open to doubt I indicate same by a note of interrogation,

NAME :- I. Doctor White, bishop of Waterford (a), Licth at Anstace Strong's

\Viddowes 2. Nicholas Fagan (71). Lieth at Nicholas hladane's 3. Fagan. Lieth at Katherin Sherlocls 4. Richard Lincoll. Lieth a t Dominike Luinbards 5. Edward Archer. Lieth a t Michael Brownes 6. Dennisse Purcell ; at Anstace Devons (?) 7. Thomas ~Voodlocke (c) ; at Ma137 Toures (?) 8. Peris IiitzMTilliam, a t Doininike Linche's 9. Richard Walsh, at the poore howse (d) '

1C. Morrisse Wise, at John Wises 11. David Jo1111, a t Paul ~ti'onges 12. Thomas Rartoe (?), a t Richard Waddings 13. Edmond Molan, at Richard Coinerforts 14, John Copperiager, a t James Goaghes 15. John Murphy, a t James Welshes 16. Patrick Woodlock, at Jasper V1~oodloclts ,

17. jarnes Dalton, at Ellin Sherlocks 18. W z m Reaclan, a t Thomas Shones (?) 19. Peeter Strong (e), a t Thomas Stronges 20, Peeter Fitz James, at Thomas Whites

(a) See note (g) below. (b) Nicholas Fagin was a Cistercian, titular Abbot of Inislounaght,

CoIjnmissionary General of his Order in Ireland, and Bishop designate of Waterford and Lismore in 1617.

(6) Thomas Woodlock reconciled the church of Carrick, when in 1603, on the death of Elizabeth, the Catholics took possession of some churches in Waterford and vicinity. See an account of the proceedingsin the Report, dated July 25th, 1604, presented to Pope Clement VIII by James White, Vicar-Apostolic, and printed as an appendix to "Cambrensis Eversus," vol. iii, by Rev. Dr. Kelly.

(d) This was the Holy Ghost Asylum, over the nave of the old Franciscan Church. Richard Walsh was presun~ably Chaplain to the Institution and probably a relative of the founder.

(e) On the occasion referred to in note (c) supra, Peter Strong reconciled the church of Dunkit.

21. Wirm Morrin, at Water Sherloclts '22. Thomas Walsh (i), at Thomas Harrolls 23 (?) Eines w~u&, at Sisley Walshes 24. John O'Killei, at Anne Walshes 25. W& Beale, at Beale Lumbards 26. David Launder, at Anne Whites 27. w z r n David, at Michael Shones (?) 28. W i G Donogho, at John Barrons 29. Peeter Drowham, at James Lumbards, Apothicany. 30. James Walshe, at Sisley Walshes Widdowe

The names of sundrie priests and friers within some dioces and counties of Ireland.

In the County of Waterford : ( j ) Doctor James White, Vicare-general1 of Lisnlore and

Waterford (g) John Gahan Dionis Purccll Piers Strange John Murphie (h) Piers Strange Fitzpaule Thomas VCralshe (1 : ) , preacher (hj

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( I ) It will be noted that some of the names in this list occur likewise in the lis't preceding.

(g) In the preceding list he is returned as Bishop ; he was really Vicar- General, or a t most, Vicar-Apostolic-i.e., a vicar governing a diocese in lieu of a Bishop ; see Fynes Moryson, Rebellion of Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, Pt. ii., Bk. I, Ch. I., &c. ; see also "Cambrensis Eversus" (Rev. Dr. Kelly), Vol. iii. The Intelligence Departnient of the Irish executive was but, indifferently served in 1606 when (teste Cal. S. P.) Sir John Davies' informant, an "Irish scholar" whom Davies "had met in the north," assured him that "Thomas _ White, born in Waterford and nephew to Dr. Lumbard, the pretended Primate of Armagh, hath the title of Bishop of Waterford." The alleged titular Bishop of Waterford, Davies' "Irish scholar" goes on to tell his patron, "hath ' a benefice in the Low Countries but liveth with his uncle a t Rome," and "Dr. James White is called Bishop of Limerick but resideth a t Clonmell in the Liberty of Tipperary" (Letter of Sir John Davies to the Earl of Salis- bury).

(h) See preceding list. (i) Appointed Archbishop of Cashel in 1626, and consecrated beyond

the seas, scil. :-in Belgium. Died in exile 1654. I n a Merchants' Quay MS. (.Wadding F s p o n d e n c e , Vol. D.I.) he is styled "of the habit of St. John in Ireland.

Wirm Morrin David Fitzjohn WilG Reardon (g) Edward Walse Edward Donovan Morise Wise St ecven Lambard Steeven Mortie ) - Thomas Wodlock (h) Gasper Woodlock Nicholas Walse WiG Ffagan (h) James Daton (h) Xcholas Fagan (32) ') John Maclan (I?) and ,&Ionlrs of St. Bernard Thomas Power Nicholas Lincoline, an Augt~stinian Friar Thomas Raughter (4, preacher and priest Pat Wodlock

In the County of Tipperary : David Kearnaie, Archbushoppe of Cashel Water Wale \ '

Nicholas Hennessey Jesuits

James Sale (?) .

Thomas Seine (?) ) Andreas O'Mullauane Richard Whitc An drew Miaghe Donoghe O'C1' ZT isan Doctor- Keating

(k) Titular Abbot of Mothel ; for an account of him see JOURNAL, Vo1. ii, p. 94, note. Subsequent to his intrusion into Mothel he submitted to Episcopal inhibition-" Father John Maddan has recalled his monk from the Abbey of Mothel and promised me to exercise no jurisdiction in that abbey," (Letter of William Browne, i.e. Bishop Patrick Comerford, to Fr. Luke Wadding, in Report on Franciscan Archives, Merchants' Quay, Dublin, p. 20.)

(1) He reconciled the church of Fethard, Co. Tipperary, in 1603 ; vide note (G), &c., nntea. Raughter may have been, like Nicholas Lincoline, an, Augustinian.

Brian Fitzmorogho Thomas Macrach, preacher of the Order of St. Brancis Piers Butler, priest James Morries, priest Donogh Barn, priest Edmond Laine, priest Daniel Kearney , priest. Moriertagh O'D uibir, priest Taige OJFahy, priest Richard Hackett, priest Donoghe M, Even (? ', , priest willrn Collean, priest

and many others whose names I forget.

111 the County of Wexford : James Walshe, vicar general of Feames Matthew Roch, preacher Donnogh O'Duling Wi% ff urlong, a Barnardine Abbott John Wadding, preacher

John Gan-ett } Jesiiits John Copinger John Synnit, a preacher of St. ffrancis is order John Heis ~ i c h a r d Staf ord David Quill '

John Piers, priest wilrm Langhton, priest

A note of Archbushoppes and Bushoppes of Ireland con- \secrated and authorised by the Pope.

Peter Lambard, borne in Waterford (m), Primate of Ardmage, now resident in Rome and relieved by the Pope.

(m) "In Ulster Dr. Peter Lumbard, born a t . Waterford, beareth the title of Primate of Ardmagh. He is now at the Court of Rome where he hath a pension from the Pope of 200 ducats by the month. He hath also the dignity of Provost in the Cathedral Church of Cambray" (C.S.P. 1606).

David ICearney, Archbusshop of Cashell,. &c;, &c. . Thomas Walsh elected of Waterford and is [ 1

relieved by his friends and by a stipend he receaves for ministering sacraments and preaching to the [ of the Cathedral Church (12 .

A note of the Romishe Priests in IVexford that are maintayned there :-

Sr. wifim Furlong Sr. John Mraddinge Sr. w i r m Devoroixe Sr. John Gerrald Sr. Richard Stafford.

A note of the Romish priests in Rosse that are rnaintayned there.

Sr. David Dowel1 Sr. Matthew Roche

A note of the Roinish priestes that are maintayned in ye English Barronyes nere Wexford-

Sir. John Deece at Carne Sr. John Synnott, a frire Sr. wih, neare Moyglasse

besides inany others in the Country. The names of their maintaynors, viz. :-

~irh Rossetor of TVexford and Susanna his wife David Furlonge of Wexford, vintner

A note of divers young gentlemen, pentioners, soldiers and scholars gone beyonde the seas.

(n) I n an additionallist a little further on appears :-"Thornas M, Donoghe now primate of Ardmagh ,a franciscan friar. He keeps commonly in the cantred of Clonmell, a great preacher."

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Stephen White, lately returned from [ . ] beyond ye seas where [he] remained three or four years.

&c., &c.

A ' ~ a r ~ i n a l note records :-"There is 60 or 70 priestes at this day within the cantred of Clonmell whereof 23 have bene mad within this year of 1613. Affirmed by Mr. Piers Butler nowe made Sheriff of the Cross who promiseth to certify there names if it be requisite."

While the foregoing document was in the printer's hands I was told. that portion, at least, of the MS. E. 3, 15 has been al.ready printed. This statement I have hmvever been ,unable to verify. In any case-as the alleged medium of publication (an early volume of " The Complete Catholic Directory, Almanack and Registry") is almost as difficult of access as the Trinity College MS. itself- publication in this present form is amply warranted.

Scraps' of Walsh Mountain History

(From the Papers of V, HUSSEY WALSH, Esq.)

No. 6 , Continued,

Edited by Very Rev. W. C A N O N CARRIGAN, D.D., M.R.I.A.

G. Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Paulus Strange, de civitate Waterfordiae Aldermannus dedi, concessi, et hac presenti charta mea confirmavi Thome Strange et Willielmo Dobbin, de dicta civitate generosis, [Laurcntio] Strange, medico, et Waltero Walsh de eadein mercatori, omilia et singula rnea terras, tenementa et hereditamenta et Clandimisse et Icarrin in Comitatu Waterford, ac etiain omnia et singula terras, tenementa et hereditamenta mea in Portneholl, Ballycagl~soust, I<nocl;legan, Balliloge et le Graindg in comitatu Killrenniae ; ac etiam omnia et singula terras, teneinenta et hereditamenta inea in comitatu civitatis Waterford, et alibi infi-a regnum .Hiberniae cum eorum singulis membris et pertinentibus : Habendum et tenendum oinnia et siilgula predictas terras, tenementa et hereditamenta pref ato ~homa+trange, Willielmo Dobbin, Laurentio Strange et Waltero Wailsh heredibus et assignatis de capitalibus [dominis] feodorum illorum per servicia inde debita et de jure consueta. E t ulterius sciant me prefatum Paulum Strange fecisse, ordinasse, et in loco meo constituisse ac posuisse .

dilectum inihi in Christo Robertum ~ e o n a r d filium [ 1 et atturnatum ad intrandtm in oinnia et singula prcinissa vel in aliquibus sive aliqua parcella premissa in quolibet comitatu conlitatoruin predictorurn, et ad possessionem sic capiendam vice et noinine ineo ; E t ad possessionein ac seisinam sic habitain et captain plenarie et pacifice prenominatus Thomas Strange, Willielmo Dobbin, Laurence Strange et Walter Wailsh, vel eorum alteri in

nomine eorum omnium deliberandum secundum formam et dilecta hujus chartae feofamenti, mei, ratum et gratum habens et habi- turus quicquid predictus meus atturnatus fecerit in premissis. E t ego predictus Paulus Strange et heredes mei o:mnia et singula premissa cum suis pertinentiis prefatis Thomae Strange, Willielmo Dobbin, Laurencio Strange et Waltero Wailsh heredibus et assignatis suis contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus, acquieta.bimus et ubique in perpetuum defendemus. In cujus rei testimonium presentibus sigillum meum apposui. Datum decimo quarto die inensis Octobris anno Domini 1617, annoque regni regis nostri Jacobi regnorum suorum Angliae, Franciae et Hiberniae decimo q~linto et Scotiae quinquagesimo.

The intent, purpose and true meaning of this dede is & was at the time of perfecting thereof that the said feoffees and that their heyres & the survivor of them and his heyres shall stand and be seised of all and singular the premises of every parte and parcel1 of them to the use of the said Paul Strange for and during his naturall life and after his decease to the use of Peter Strange, son to the said Paule Strange for and during his naturall. life ; the remainder to Richard son to the said Peter Strange and the heyres males of his body ; the remainder to Paul1 Strange and the heyres males of his body ; the remainder to Thomas Strange and the heyres males of his body ; the-remainder to Nicholas Strange and the heyres male; of his boddy ; the remainder to James Strange and the heyres males of his boddy ; the remainder to Robert Strange and the heyres males of his body ; the remainder to the heyres males of of the body of the said Peter Strange ; the remainder to the heyres of Richard Strange of in the county of Kilkenny for ever, provided always that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Paul Strange by any act executed or to be executed duringe his naturall life or by his last will and testament to dispose of the premises or of any parte or parcel1 of them such as he shall think expedient and to chardge them and every such of them as he shal be pleased withal such somes of money as he shall thinck mete notwithstandinge any of the for[

Paule Strange .Being present at the sealing and delivery hereof as his dede

by the within named Paul Strange to the within Laurence Strange

and Walter Wailsh for and in .'the name of themselves and their cofeoffees within named, as also to the within named Atturney, Robert Leonard, those whose names are underwritten :

John Morgan, Nicholas Strange, Richard comerford. Being present when Patrick Dey, tenant for yeres of the

towne & lands of Ballicaghsowste and Knocklegan within mentioned, did atturn and become tenant to Laurence Strange & Walter Wailsh, in the name of them and the cofeoffees within named, in delivering six pence in name of atturnment, those whose names are underwritten :

John Morgan. Nicholas Strange. Richard Comerford. Being present when James Bolger, tenant for yeres of the

townes and lands of Ballileeg and the Graindge within mentioned did atturn and become tenant to [Laurence Strange ck] Walter Wailsh, in the names of them and the cofeoffees within named in deliveringe of six pence in name of atturnment, those whose names are under written :

John Morgan. Nicholas Strange. Richard Comerford. Being present at the delivery of every by a clodd of earth

by the within named atturney Robert Leonard to the within named atturney William Dobbin, one of the feoffees, in the house in Trinity Parish wherein Ralph Iure dwelleth a t this present in the name of all the said Paule is and within the countie of the cittiei of Waterford in the name of him the said William Dobbin and1 the within named Thomas, Laurence & Walter whose names doe-) ensue accordinge the effect, purport and true meaning of the within written :

David Dobyn. William White. Danyell Cleere, Being present a t the delivery of a clodd of earth by the within

named atturney, Robert Leonard, of and in the towne & lands of Glandeemofor and in the name of itself and all other the lands of the said Paul Strange, in the Co. Waterford,. to Walter Wailsh within named .in the name of him and his cofeoff ees within named according to the effect, purport & true meaninge of the within written dede those whose names doe [ensue].

William Dobbin. Robert Leonard. William Flynge. Thoma[ ] Being present at the delivery of a clod of earth by the [rest

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I. Gomitatus Kilkenny, Termino Michaelis, ultimo die Septembris, 1624.-Whereas Robert Walsh of ~ a ~ e n e c o w h k ~ , in the county of Kilkenny, gentleman, became bound in a recognizance of £40 sterling, dated the 28th day of November, 1616, for the payment of £20 sterling into his Majesty's Receipt, being for a fine imposed on him in the Castle Chamber, in Easter Term 1616, upon which recognizance there issued out of his Court for levying of the same to his Majesty's use directed to foure several1 sheriffs of the said county, videlicet, Clement Dayell [Dallyell ?I, Walter Galle, Henry Stanre [Stane ?I, 8: John Butler, which sheriffs have levied. and seized of the goods and chattells of the said Robert Walsh the sum of £20 sterling, and have paid the sume into his Maj esty 's receipte, videlicet, the said Clement Dayell 10s. sterling, the said Walter Galle L5 15s. sterling, the said Henry Stanre £8 sterling, and the said John Butler £3 5s. sterling, for which the said recognizance was acknowledged. All which several payments appeareth by certificate under the hands of the Clerk of the Pipe and Auditor remayneinge in his Majesty's Remeinbrancee's Office. It is therefore now ordered that the said recognizance shall be forthwith cancelled and of, the new Sheriffe of the saide County" of Il(illtenny, Oliver Shortall, Esquire, not to do any execution on the said Robert Walsh concerning the said recognizance in taking the boddy or seizing of the goods, but give full release and discharge the same upon the order and shall be thereoff exonerated on his accompts. Blenerhasset.

(-Ex lib. voc. "Excheq. Orders" in Tur. Birni.) J. Comitatus Kilkenny, Termino Sancti Hillarii, 1683.-

Whereas Robert Walsh, Esquire, humbly petitioned his Excel- lencie Richard, Earn of Arran, Lord Deputy of this Kingdom for a custodiam of 115a. 2r. of Ballynowinabagh, 132a. of Millodstowne, 88a. lr. 32p. of Barnadowne and Browneston, and 12a. 5r. (sic) of Castlehoyle, claimed by him as a nominee, and 39a. 3r. 35p. of Ballynonee, being parte of his ancient estate, in regarde the said lands were in his Majesty's disposal. Whereupon his Excellencie by his order of the 12:~ of ffebruary, 1683, did refer the examination thereof to the Lord Chiefe Baron and the rest of the Barrons of the Courte of Exchequer to report what they should finde with their oppinione of the same, and whereas his Excellencie by his further order of the first of March 1683 in consideration of the

reporte made in the case by the said Barrons and the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue whereby it appeared that the said lands were in his Majesty's disposal prayed and required the Lord Chiefe Baron of Phis Courte to cause a custodiam to be issued to the said Robert Walsh of the said lands and premises under the yearly quit rent Now upon motion of Councell with the said Mr. Walsh praying a custodiam of the premisses might be made unto h'm according to the tenor of the said order of the Lord Deputy, which being taken into consideration and upon reading the same this day in Court : I t is ordered that the Clerk of the Pipe doe make out a custodiam of all and singular the preinisses unto the said Robert Walsh of the rent of £7 16 104 per annuin, being the quit rent over and above the arrears of the same due to his Najestie to continue during his Majestic's pleasure and the Chief Reniem- brancer is to issue an Injunction directed to the Sheriff of the said County to put the custodee or his assignes in the possession of the premisses whereof the Chief Remembrancer and all officers concerned are to take notice.

, Custodia data 12th ffebruarii 36" Regis, 1863.

I<. Coinitatus Waterford, Termino Sailcti Rfichaelis 1671.- Whereas Thomas ~ a l s h , Ellin his wife, and John thyre son, tenants of y" towne and landes of Pilltowne, Monellyer, Rathknockbeank, Garranspoy, Glestenanlorkmdarry, Dromgallon, Killmeedy, Rill- mallow, Kilgabrell, Loghlan, Clashmore, Carrymore, Croskea, Ballykeoghe, Ballenvoige, Ballenvoile, Islandsdurrow, Shanekell, Knockdrumlea, Meilerstowne, Glandalltin, Gortonary, in the

. Barony of Deece, the towne and landes of Cooleroe, Kelsaynis & Whitestowne, in the Barony of Upperthird, in the said county, containing in all 11,992ac. 2r. 3p. at £112 8 6 sterling per aiinum for three years ended a t Michaelmas 1668, stailcls charged with the summe of £337 5 6i, wherewith ye said Thomas finding him- selfe grieved, by his Co~~nsell humbly moved the Court setting forth that he this present 34ichaelmas term fyled his plea to y? aforesaid charge of Quit Rent as an I&ocent Protestant, and wherfor prayed a competent time to prosecute said plea : all which the Courte taking into consideration, and ye tmth of yf

said allegations appearinge, i t is ordered by consent of My. Edward Robert in Court that the said charge with the accruing rent thereof be and is hereby respited until yEfirst day of y?.next tearm and in the meantime no process to issue out of this Court for the same, and if yf. Sheriff of y% said County or the Collectors of the Quit Rent there have talten any money, bills, bonds, distresses, or other security for this cause they are on sight hereof to restore the same, and y?. said Sheriff to be thereof exonerated and his accompt whereof the Clerk of the Pipe y~Commissioners for the farmes of his Majesty's Revenue and all other officers on service are to take notice. J. Byss.

(-Ex per. Jo. Thompson, dep. Remem. Scaccarii).

L. Comitatus Waterford, Termino Sancti Hillarii, 1670.- Whereas it appeareth by Constat from the Second Remembrancer that Thomas Walsh, Ellen, his wife, and John Walsh, their son, tenants of the lands of Piltowne, Monolerys, Rath, Knockbanke, Glestenan, Lackendary, Drumgallen, Kilneedy, Kilmaloe, Ril- gabrell, Lougtan, ~lashfnore, Currymore, Croskea, Ballykeroges, Ballnivoiges, Ballyvoile, Islancl, Durren, Shanalteele, Knockdumlea, Milerstowne, Glandalgin, in the Barony of Deeses, the lands of Coolroe, Kiljamis and Whitestowne in the Barony of Upperthird, and County of Waterford, containing in the whole ll,gWac. 2r. 3p. at £112 8 6 per annum for three yeares ended at Michaelmas 1668 stands charged with the sum of E338 5 6, also that the same tenants of qalyshea- (m) , in the Barony of Knocktopher, the lands of Tinis- kelly (Tiniscolly), Mongan, Tyreloyne (Tintine) and Cooleveheny (Coolreney), in the Barony of Ida, Igrin and Ibercon, and County of Kilkenny, containing in the whole 1573ac. 3r. 21p. a t £19 10 10 per annum, for the same time : Whereas the said Ellen Walsh and John her son finding themselves grieved humbly moved the Court for relief alleadging that the lands of Monolerys, Croslea, Ballylreroge, Ballyvoile, Island, Durren, Shavakeele, Knock- dumlea, Millerstowne, Cooleroe, Kilsavis and Whitestowne, in the

(m) Under the Cromwellian regime Thomas Walsh had. a grant of 333 acres, part of the confiscated estate of Edmond Howling and Peter Anthony, in the townland of Ballyhale, alias Ballinshea, in the parish of Derrinahensy, and barony of Knocktopher.

said first charge recited are not in their possession but injoied by the Lady Isabella Sinyth and others, they the said Thomas, Ellen and John being only decreed to the right of redeincion of the said lands, and also alleadging that in the said second charge mentionecl are likewise enjoyed by Sir Thomas Stanley and others, they being also decreed only to the right of redemcion of these lands also, and therefore praied that the Quit Rent of the said landes soe out of their possession as aforesaid may be charged an the said lands themselves and not on them the saicl Ellen or John Walsh or on the other lands in their possession and mentioned in the said charge : All which being taken into consideration, and the truth of the said allegations appearing by a report from the ffarmers of his Majesty's Revenue, a Certificate from his Majestic's Auditor General, and an affidavit being produced and read in Court I t is ordered that the Quit Rent falling due by apportionment on the said lands out of their possession as aforesaid with the arrears thereof be and hereby is suspended as to the said Ellen and John Walsh and the landes in their possession until the said Ellen and John Walsh shall enjoy the said several lands so out of their possession as aforesaid ; and if the Sheriff of the saicl County or any other Collector have taken any money, bills, bonds, distresses, or any other security from the said Ellen or John Walsh or their tenants on the lands in their possession as aforesaid, they are respectively on sight hereof to restore the same and to be thereof exonerated on their respective accounts, whereof the ffariners of his Majesty's Revenue and all other persons concerned are to take notice. Jo. Bysse.

. (-E Lib. voc. "Excheq?. Orders," in Turr. Birm.) 1 . The intente, purport and true meaninge of the makinge

of the above feoffment & deede of guifte is and was at the time of the perfectinge thereof declared to bee that the above named John Lea and Thomas Lumbard and theire heires and assignes should a t all times hereafter stand seized and be possessed respectively of all and singular the above named Robert Walsh his lands, tenements, hereditaments, fearmes and chattells real for the use of the said Robert for and during his naturall life and after his death immediately to the use of such female issue as the said Roberte shall have at the time of his death unmarried until they and every of them shall receive of the rents, issues, and profitts

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of the saide lands and farmes all such soms of money as the said ,Roberte shall leave, appoint, and bequeath unto them by his last will and testament or otherwise for their preferment in marriage, and after to the use of James Walsh sonne and heir to the said Robert and to the use of the heires males of his boddy lawfully begotten and to bee begotten ; and for want of such heirs to the use of Peter Walsh fitz Thomas and the heires males of his boddy lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for want of such heires to the use of James Walsh of Ballygunner in the County of Water- ford, gentleman, and his heires and assigns for ever, provided allwaies and it was declared and ment that the said feoffees and the survivor of them and the heires and assignes of the survivor of them shall notwithstanding the former uses give, pay and deliver unto Besse Walsh alias Lea his now wife of the said :Robert Walsh towards her maintenance yearely during her natural life the sume of twenty pounds sterling English of the rents and profitts of all and singular the premisses by just moieties and equal1 portions a t the feasts of Easter and Saint Michael1 the Archangel1 for and in lieu of all such maintenance as shee the said Besse might hereafter demand during the said Robert's life or, dower or other portion that she might demaunde at his the said Robert's death. (Xarked "a.n 1629," in margin).

N. In the name of God. Amen. I, Robert Walsh, in perfect witt and memory, though feeble of boddie, doth make this my t s

Iast will and testament. First I bequeath my soule to the ~lessed Trinitie, father, sonne, and holy ghoste, unto the unspotted Virgin Mary, Mother of God, unto all the Saints in Heaven, my special patrons and advocators, and my boddy to bee buried in my ancestors burial1 place in our Lady Chappell in Christ Church or other Christian Burial1 and [recte at] my wife and friend's election. I appoint my sonne and heir, James Walsh, sole executor of this my last will and testament.

Item, I. leave fiftie poundes sterling currant monie of and in England to bee paide .oute of my whole lands and estate to my .

unkle, Michael Hore, for which part my land doth lie in mortgage. Item, I leave one hundred pounds sterling currant money of and in England to bee paid to Redmond fitz Nicholas in redemption of my house which lietb to him in mortgage oute of my estate and lands. Item, my will is that any debt will appeare lawfull

in those undernamed that I w:ll assigne for tutors & protectors of my children shall be honestly paid out of my estate and lands.

Item, I bequeath to my daughter Margaret Walsh, two hundred pounds sterling currant monies of and in England to bee leavied and paid out of the first fruits of my whole landes and estate and sett to her best uses, Item, I doe bequeath to my daughter, Mary Walsh, one hundred and fiftie pounds sterling currant monies of and in England to bee paid as formerly imediately after her sister bee paid. Item, I bequeath to my child yett not borne one hundred pounds sterling currant money of and in England to be paide oute of my whole estate and landes imediately after my eldest child bee paid.

Item, my will is that if my sonne, James Walsh, and my sonne to be borne shall die before my daughter Margaret bee preferred that the said Margaret shall have three hundred pounds and each of her sisters two hundred pounds sterling for their portions still whensoever their brethren die before they bee preferred, soe that any that will survive her brethren before preferment shall have the saide portion. Item, my will is that all my daughters shall receive their preferment or portion when they come to eyghteen yeares of age provided if any of them die before they bee paid or preferred that my surviving children or child shall inheritte theire portion or portions by equal1 divisions.

Item, my will is that my loving wife take care of my children , and allowance bee given her in ward for theire maintenance, as it shall be thought fitt by my unkles Thomas and Richard Walsh and my cozens Richard Strong of Dunltitt, James Walsh of BaLly- gunner, and Robert Wise of Credon, or any two or three of them, provided still that either of my unltles (if then livinge) be one of the two or three ; and if my wife neglect the care of them that they and their ineanes bee removed from her ac~ording the discretion of my said cozens, with the consent of one of my unkles if either be then livinge. Item, I bequeath to my loving wife, Besse Lea, beside her jointure, my now dwelling house before Saint Olavs Church door, and the use of all my household stuffe during her viduity, excepting my double guilt salt, my dozen bigge silver spoones, my stone bound under and over with silver . double guilte, my tapstrie carpett, nq7 bigge brqsse pott and biggest brewinge panne, which I leave to my sonne James and his heirs

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to be delivered him or them when hee or they come to one and twentie years of age, in the meantime to bee secured for him to the discretion of the tutors I leave to oversee my wife and children. Item, I leave her three pounds sterling to be given to [by ?] my wife towards the ends the tutors of my children shall tell her.

Item, I leave to my foster mother, Ioan Whelan, her now dwelling house and after her death I leave itt to her son, John Gowe, duringe his natural1 life, he payinge yearlie one shilling sterling to my heires. Item, I leave to my cozen Neal1 Woodloclce during her viduitie her now dwelling house at the rent shee fitts at.

Item, I appoint upon my blessinge that my wife, my sonne James, and all my other children, bee wholly protected, saide and directed by my unldes Thomas and Richard Walsh and by my cozens Richard Stronge, James Walsh and Robert Wise whom I leave for overseers and tuitors of my wife and chilclren, and doe hereby pray them for the love of God and muttla1 respectadue unto cach of our ancestors that they take this care to heart and see that this my will bce accomplished leaving to any two or three of them (provided either of my said uidcle if then bee h inge bee one) as well the discretion and cliearing of any question or con- troversie shall arise of this my will and difference shall growe betwixte my wife and children or my children amongst themselves, as allsoe the disposeinge of my children and theire meanes while they keep with theire mother or bee removed from her, and the alteringe of any clause of this my will.

Item, I appoint my cozen, Thomas Lombard, my lawful attorney to recover and receive all debts due unto me, to whom I leave full authoritie to that effecte. Item, lastly, my soule to bee yearlie praied for by my lovinge wife, whom I straightly charge uppon my blessinge, and my children, to have our ancestors yearelie praied for, as they left their several1 meanes for remembeiinge of them.

The thirteenth day of February, 1629. Witnesses being present at the declaration of this will.: Richard Walsh, Thomas Lambard.

Wee undernamed doe testifie this to bee the true and verbal1 copie of Robert Walsh, gentleman, deceased, his will and testament, in Waterford, the 13t.h of April, 1629, Richard Walsh, &c.

(-Ex Inquis. in Com. Waterford. captis temp. Car. primi & nunc in Officio Rotulorum de record0 remanentibus.)


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AN un~zsually large pile of new boolts (the past quarter's output of arclxeological literature) confronts the writer. Little, however, of the material claiming attention is of great local interest and perhaps less still is of first rate inlportance to the Irish antiquarian.

IN "The Diocese of Ellily" (Ch~zrch of Ireland Printing and Publish- ing Conipany, Ltd.) Rev. St. John D. Seymour furnishes a succinct history from its foundation to the present day of what is often claimed to be the oldest Irish see. This history of Emly presents more than one knotty problenl, e.g., the period of St. Ailbhe,

' which has hitherto defied all the learning of Irish scholars. To the solution of one of these it was the present writer's hope that Rev. Mr. Seyniour would have specially addressed hiniself, The hope was however doomed to disappointment and for this I do not blame the a~ztlior, who probably regarded the questions as insoluble from the data a t his command. I also confess I should like to have seen the Celtic period assigned a larger pro- portionate degree of importance in the history of such a diocese as Enily. Again the volume should have been furnished with a map or maps. On the other hand let me say the author approaches his task in the tr~ze spirit of the historian, wl~ich does not bold a brief for any cause-except truth. We have altogether too many honest people in Ireland who will insist on writing into history or reading therein, their own peculiar political, social or religious prejudices : hence collies it that in the same plain, bald, uncontroverted fact two otherwise intelligent men read two dia- metrically .opposite things. Without necessarily assenting to all Rev. Xr. Seymour's con~l~s ions one can say that his work: does its author niucli credit-evincing much research, wide reading, devotion to and love of his subject.

AT first sight a work on Australian ethnology does not suggest attractions to a Irish antiquarian. In matters prehistoric however the whole world seems akin and what the Australian is to-day in his art the dweller on the hills of Erin was three t'housand years ago. From the study of present day savages therefore-even though their habitat be beneath a tropic sun and in islands of a southern sea-we get unexpected lights on the remote past of our own race. I t was, for instance, from an Australian savage that the present writer derived his practical knowledge of hafting a stone axe and flaking a flint. These remarks are suggested by receipt from Macmillan & Co. of "Across Australia," a fine two-volume work on Australian exploration-by Professor

. Baldwin Spencer and Mr. F. J. Gillen. The intrepid explorers named have spent almost half a lifetime in study of the nomad tribes whose niggard patrimony is the arid and little known region extending northward from Alice springs and the McDonnell Ranges to the '~u1f of Carpentaria. That the explorers in their march met tribes still in the stone age is what might be expected, but that they encountered peoples who had never previously seen a white man or a horse may surprise some who know little about the centre of the Australian continent. Amaze- ment of the wild sandhill men found a sort of expression in their prostration to the earth is awesome wonder, a t sight of the monster which split in twain as they thought-when the white man dis- mounted f r ~ m his horse. The work .under notice, which is of course excellently produced, is copiously and appropriately illustrated. Some of the plates of stone implements, etc., might almost be borrowed to illustrate a work on the Celtic stone age. Specially interesting to the ethnologist are the chapters on weapons and implements, methods of fire making and elaborate symbolic ceremonial. One of the things which a careful perusual of this work suggests to a student of early Celtic antiquity is that, a t this great distance of time, w2 can never hope to recover more than a fraction-almost painfully minute-of the true significance of obscure references in our ancient tales and even in the martyrologies and in the lives of Celtic saints. The fact is, the life of primitive man-his religion, ritual and etiquette, his lore and his social obligations seem to have been little, if any, less complicated than our own.

'' IRELAND under the Commonwealth" (Manchester University (Press) is the title of another two-volume work wherein Mr. Robert Dunlop furnishes us with a selection of documents relating to the Government of Ireland from 1651 to 1659. This selection, %edited with notes and a lengthy historical introduction, has .been made from .a number of MS. volumes referred to by .Prendergast and preserved in the Public Record Office. The collection was originally intended by the author for a projected

-history of the Commonwealth in Ireland and it contains, the editor contends, a fairly complete abstract of all the matter likely to prove of value to the student of the period. The editor commenced his work of collection with the hope that he should be able to present Cromwell's policy in a more favourable light than Prendergast, whom he conceived as partisan, had done. He hoped to be able to show that the Cromwellian confiscations wcre the well merited punishment of massacres. Further study of the matter convinced him that the depositions relating to the massacres were worthless as historical evidence and that in any case they had nothing to do with the confiscations as a motive or ground. Moreover his investigations convinced Mr. Dunlop that neither religion nor the alleged Rebellion itself was regarded by the Long Parliament as affording grounds for the wholesale appropriation of Irish lands. Similarly his study of the documents has led him to conclude that the rising itself was not due to religious disabilities, nor to the land policy of Elizabeth or James as Dr. Gardiner contends, but simply to the feeling of antagonism between Ireland and England and the unwilingness of the former country to be subject to the latter. The learned editor bases his arguments and conclusions solely on the Cromwellian state papers ; evidence from '

the Irish side he does not profess to have heard or weighed.

THE Irish Texts Society is rapidly discharging arrears ; this year it has already issued two ~01s.-"The i4dvei~tures of Suibhne Geilt" and "The Poems of David OJBrudair," part 11, edited by Mr. J. G. OJI<eeffe and Rev. John MacErlean, S.J., respectively, The first of these is a midclle-Irish Romance of strange-probably unique-character, which has for its subject the weird history of -one Suibhne Geilt, an Irish provincial king, subsequent to his flight

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from the battle plain of Mag11 Rath. Battle's awful din and the curse of St. Ronan Finn, towards whom he had used violence, . deprive Suibhne of his reason, and a madman he flics stark naked through Ireland. One of the distinctive features of this singularly .wild poem is the amount of place-name lore which i t contains. On other grounds too the "~dventures" possesses much arch- ~ological interest, while the literary value is compar-atively high. Mr. O'Keeffe has put a large amount of excellent critical work into the volume, which he has further enriched with a fine introduction, a vocabulary of rarer words and an abundance of valuable annotation. The "Adventures" fo rm Vol. xii of the Society's series. Vol. xiii is part the Second of O'Bruadair's poems, edited with introduction and notes. As Father IiacErlean has already, in the first volume of the poems, dealt with the poet and his life, his introduction to the present volume is confined largely to an account -of the persons and times to whom and which the poems refer. O'Bruadair flourished in the latter half of the seventeenth century and was at the zenith of his powers a t the time when the pscudo- popish plot was furnishing a lucrative, if not honest, living to a small host of law officials and pretended informers. Arn&~nq the informers and perjurers of the period were Hubert Bourke and John 1ilcNama1-a of Co. Waterforcl, and among the accused some .of the more prominent were Richard Power of Curraghmore, Earl of Tyrone, John Brenan, Bishop of Waterford, and Sir John Fitzgerald, Bart., pf Claonglais, Co. Limerick. From the summer of 1681 to the following spring, judges were kept busy disposing #of cases in connexion with the plot, and though Ormonde writing privately to the Earl of Arran acltnowledges the alleged conspiracy t o be a fake and a sham, yet in public he professes to believe it bona fide. It is with these times and incidents and actors therein that O'Bruadair's muse is concerned. Into his notes Father MacEi-lean has worked a surprising quantity of topographical, historical, and other information.

"THE Journal of the Royal Anthropoligical Institute" for the second half of 1912 is remarkable for a detailed account by Mr. Reid Moir and Professor Keith of the notable discovery in October, 193 1, of human remains beneath a stratum of boulcter clay near

Ipswich. The peculiar interest attaching to this " find" is that the evidence seems to prove the remains the earliest yet discovered and that, though the skeleton is older than the fanlous Neanderthal man, it is-nnlike the latter--of quite modern type and size and of norn~al brain capacity. Xore interesting and valuable to the general student than tlie paper of Xessrs. Moil- & Keith just referred to is Professor Gomland's illuminative essay, with whicl~ the Journal opens, on "The Metals in Antiquity." The essay is illustrated by sketches of ancient mining impleinents and smelting operations, and is to be conmlei~ded as .a masterly summary of the subject by one of the highest 'authorities thereon.

" ERIU" and " Gadclica" are related publications, in the sense that one deals with old and middle and the other, with n~odern, Irish stttdies. Ho higher proof of the vitality of the Nco-Celtic movement can be needed than the sustained existence and excellence of these two learned publications. " Eriu," part ii, Vol. vi (printed at the D~uzdalgan Press) has three short papers by Professor Kuno Meyer, a careful study by the Editor, Nr. R. I. Best, of the script of Leabhar-na-Huidhre, and some notes and papers by Messrs. J. Fraser, Lucius Gwynn, and Professor Quiggin. Anlongst the contributors to the inost recent issue of "Gadelica," of which Mr. Tllolnas O1Ra1iilly is editor, n7e find, besides the editor fiimself, such well lil10~Vli scholars as Professor Bergin, " Torna, ' ' and Seanl~ts ua Casaide, Of particular interest to us is Mr. 0 'Cassidy's edition of Huniprey O'Sullivan's Diary. O'Sullivan was a schoolniaster resident a t Callan who for years kept a diary in Irish, and his observations day by day upon natural phenomena and local occurrences are brimful of entertainment and often valuable. 111 the last instalillelit of the diary are references for instalice to Slievenamon, the Comeragli and Walsh A!tountaiiis, &c., &c.---- With the foregoing two learned Irish publications I may bracket the "Proceedings" for 1912-13 of the Classical Associatioli of Ireland (Dublin : Browne & Nolan) wherein Rev. Professor Boylan's "Aegean Culture and the 19th Dynasty" principally interests us. Other articles of arcllaeological im port- ance are Professor Henry's "Greek cities of Ttaly," and Professor Bosanquet's " Recent Excavations a t Miletns."

THE Eoard of public Works (Ireland), or rather perhaps their officer Dr. Cochrane, deserves the country's thanks for the copiously illustrated Report (191 2) on Glendalough, Published as a Guide for visitors to St. Kevin's holy city the book would be a decided &on ; it would be a specially welcome companion to students of archzology who are only misled and irritated by the kind of thing which generally passes for a Guide-book in Ireland. Because its observations and conclusions are as generally applicable to Ireland as to Great Britain I desire to draw attention to a very careful piece of work on the bronze period- "The Evolution of the Bronze Spear in Britain"-which appears, to the credit of Mr. Parker Brewis, F.S.A., in the current issue, Proceedings of .Durham University Philosophical Society. From the British 31useum (Natural His tory Department) come two guide books which students of Anthropology and natural history will find specially useful, scil. :-"Guide to the Specimens lliustrating the Races of Mankind," and" Guide to the Domesticated Animals."--The Royal Irish Academy's, Vol. x, of the Todd Lecture Series really deserves a paragraph to itself. I t contains the concluding portion (pt. iii) of the metrical Dindshen- chas, edited by Edward Gwynn. The material embodied and the notes contain much that the student ef Irish place-names will find mvaluable. As part 3 of the Clare Island Survey the Academy has also issued " Place-Names and Family Names" by Professor John MacNeill.

NOTES AND C&JERIES.

Bishop Richard Pierse of Waterford.-I am indebted to Professor 0. J. Bergin for the following extract from an exceedingly curio& Irish MS. (D 19) by Father Magnus (Manutius) 6 Ruorke in the Franciscan Convent, Merchants' Quay, Dublin. The Bishop to whom i t refers was Richard Pierse (1696-1736), then (about 1710) in exile and apparently in some degree attached to the court of the deposed King James a t Paris. Father O'Rourke, author of the verses, I have been unable to trace. Apparently he had no literary knowledge of 1;ish which he wrote phonetically and after the manner of one whose ordinary speech was French.

(From a transcript by Charles MacNeill). "for ye buss~zp of Watterfort

Mas lchonrih er asbug weh ghjannunih kijnsiesih morguih flahufwuil kiannisgh kijgn reylligh olguigh griannwuir tannuhgh wrierhigh clih wer fodlugh barrih din taguirt dih clyn fieriss."

(Orthographic version by J. H. Lloyd and 0. J. Bergin).

" MAS cumhastha as easbog bheith geanmnaidhe coinsiasach, m6rdha flaitheamhail ceannasach caoin-riaghlach, edlgach greannmhar taitneanihach [binn-Ibhriathrach, do-bheir F6dla barra don tsagart do Chloinn Plliarais,"

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Power Family of ~l&ha.-1 am indebted to the courtesy and genealogical lcnowle4ge of Count de la Poer for the following pedigree of the Power family of Glasha, Co. Waterford, which he carries- down to Piers Power, Knight of St. Louis. I have taken the liberty of adding the names of the latter's brothers and sisters

whose respective ages and comparative seniority 1 do not however know. The pedigree will illustrate. the "Power PapersJ' a t p. 103 :

John Power, of the

County of Waterford=

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I ~ h o m a s Power, Nashy, of Glashy. = dau. of-

I I O'Ruirlc.

1 Piers Power, Katherine, dau.

of Gashy. = .of Francis Morony, of / Clonrnel.

Bonmahon Paper Currency, &c.-Unlike the Portlaw " Leather Afoney," many specimens of which survive, the Bonmahon paper token seems to have all but entirely disappeared. As a frontispiece to the present issue is illustrated the only specimen of " Bonmahon (or rather I<nockmahon) Money" known to the writer. This is in the collection of Mr. John N. White, of Rock- lands, through whose courtesy I am enabled to reproduce it in facsimile. The reproduction, by the way, is in the exact size of the original. I had expected to be able to furnish, with the illustration, a sketch history of Bonmahon as a former mining, printing, and holyday centre, but exigencies of space, &c., cornpel postpone-

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John Francis Thomas= Richard James. Paul Jasper Joseph M.D., = Frances, dau.

1 "a Canon b, March . a t cassel in 1715, d. a t Flanders." Avignon.

France, 24th Aug,, 1784,

of Major William Inglis,

I 1 I I I I I I- Piers Rev, Rev. John Atny Kitty Margaret '= JohnBray, Johnpower , =Henrietta, Power, Francis Edmond, Power, Power. Power. of Cashel. Comte de Kt. of Power Power, Power, b. a t St. Vice- S,J.;d. Chelmsford, Louis. Pres. in France 3 Sept., 1764,

hlay- March, 1799 mar. in Paris. nooth (Foley), o r 26 April, 1789. College. 1779 (Oliver) =

dnu. of - and of Anne de Bran- court, d. 14 May, 1792.

I Anne Eueenie = Count John ~ l e m e n t i g e Francis Power, O'RIahony. b. 20 Ap., 1790, baptised at St . Nicholas des Champs, Paris (only child).

(For above Pedigree, see Ulster's Office, Dublin Castle.)

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nient of the design, The token figured herewith is (or rather was) val-ued for half-a-crown, and the amount in question seems to have been the only sum for which the mining company issued a note. I n connexion with the Bonmahon inines and their working I may refer my readers to a description in a former No. of this JOURNAL,

of a prehistoric ingot found some years since within the copper field. Recently, looking through the collection of Mr. R. J. Kelly, B.L., Wellington Road, Dublin, I had my attention directed by its owner to a . snuff box of burnished copper which purports to have been made from the produce of the first smelting of Bon- inahon ore. Refining and smelting seem to have been done in Waterford. An inscription (current hand) on lid of the box runs as follows :-

Made of the First Copper smelted and

Refined at St' John's mare Waterford by

Thomas Butler and Comp, January the 5,

1748. The box, which is oval in shape and solidly made, is about

3&" and 2t" in greater and lesser diameter respectively, by 1" in height.

A third memento of Bonmahon's bygone industries has recently come into the present writer's possession ; this takes the shape of a little illustrated volume, produced a t the Bonmahon printing press in 1851, and entitled "Try, a Book for the Boys." The tale is quite a wretched thing of weakest Sunday school quality, but the typography is excellent, the get-up artistic, and the illustrations very interesting. As a frontispiece the book has an inserted photographic print showing the interior of the printing establishment. Bound up in the little volume as a kind of appendix is a "Pictorial outline of the Rise and Progress of the Bonmahon Schools." This is a brief history of the printing and other schools carried on a t Bonmahon by Rev. David Doudney. The 'Wutline" makes a pamphlet of 32 pp. which is copiously illustrated by views (woodcuts) of Bonmahon, the schools, pupils, &c. It has too-what is perhaps of much more interest-an appended list of the works up to then issued from the Bonmahon press.

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Rev. Simon Walsh, Irish Scholar.-Among a quantity of unbound and unclassified O'Curry MSS. in the Library, May- nooth College, I recently met a letter from Rev. Simon Walsh of Newrath, Waterford, to his friend and fellow enthusiast, Humphrey Sullivan, of Callan. By the way the writer gives the name, Callan, in ogham. Unfortunately the letter has lost its date ; it is,however interesting for its reference to a local collection of Irish MSS. which it is to be hoped has not disappeared for ever like so many things of its kind. In the course of Mrs. O'Cassedy's edition of O'Sullivan's Diary (" Gadelica," Nos. 2 and 3, Vol. i.) occurs a reference to Rev. Simon Walsh. His "Black Book" is also referred to and a table of its contents given in an Irish MS., (&) R.I.A.

8 r MY DEAR FRIEND Enclosed I send you the valuable Irish Manuscript you were

good enough to lend me, .I also send you a valuable collection of M.M.S. belonging to a Mr James O'Mara, a shopkeeper in the Main St., Clonmel, who lent them to nie some months ago. This collection which I now place in your care Mr. O'Meara would not give for £50. He is an independent man in circumstances and has a great passion for Irish literature. You'll keep them until you see me or hear from me. I'll thank you not to give them .or lend them to anyone but keep them as safe as possible. Until then believe me to be,

Yours very sincerely, SIMON WALSH. "

Some of our readers may be able to tell us something of James O'Meara and the fate or present location of the MSS.

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Introduction of the Poor Law into 1re:land.-Occas- ional prosecutions for non-compliance with requirements of the new Insurance Act recall the opposition nearly seventy years ago to the Poor Law Act in Co. Waterford. From the "Cork Con- stitution" of April, 1845, we gather that at the last meeting of the Dungarvan Board of Guardians the rate collectors announced they had been unable to collect a penny and all tendered their resignation ! Among the recusants -was Mr. Michael O'Brien, a member of the Board; who had, locked his gates and invited the collectors to take his stock, If they -could. The union was then

in debt t o the aniount of ,C11,200, although the " house" had not 37et been opened and there was three years' salary due to . the clerk. In Gaultier an attempt to collect the rate was made by Dr. Fitzgerald, the official collector ; what the results were let the " Waterford Chronicle" tell :-

"The 'dogs of war' were let slip on Monday morning at the early hour of two o'clock ; an entire army of .horse, foot, and artillery, police and bailiffs, headed by the Doctor, and accompanied by Mr. Thomas Pinkerton, from the South Dublin Union, forced their way through the pass of Gaultier, while the natives were asleep, and after a wearisome and dirty march, returned to head- quarters a t ten in the morning, without a single hostage. The learned Doctor reported, on his returil, that several of the refractory submitted, and paid the rate. It is now asce~tained that the cost of collecting poor-rate in Gaultier amounts exactly to cent. per cent.

"We give the result of the day's campaign :-A Protestant clergyman's horse seized, and released by payment of the rate ; a farmer's cow seized a t Ballynaboola released ; a cow seized at Barlistown, not released, the owner preferring to lose his cow, as inany Irishmen lost their lives, for conscience sake. At Kil St. Nicholas, the property of the Marquis of Waterford, a stand was made by the passive enemy ; the cattle were all housed, and the. farm-yard gates locked. The park of flying artillery was brought '

up to the breach, flanlied on either side by a troop of horse and a hundred policemen. Yet in vain. The motto at Kil St. Nicholas was 'no surrender.' They would neither open their gates nor their purses ; the women and children laughing heartily, crying out-'Thiv a vallei, Docthw, a lama.' (Ang1ice)- Go home, Doctor dear.' "

~otwithstanding his strenuous endeavours the collector was obliged to report at next meeting of the Guardians that the total of his receipts for the week was only £14 12s. 9d. and that the cost of collecting same was £13 5s. 6d., which left the Board a credit . balance of L l 7s. 3d. ! At a later date another attempt to enforce the Act resulted, a t Half-way-House, in the rescue of cattle seized Irom Robin Pottle, of Drornina, and, in k hot encounter between police and people, one of the former received injury which led, I believe, to permanent disablement. .

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Wilson's History of Waterford.-Some time since I was enabled through courtesy of its owner, Mr. E. R. McC. Dix, to examine a rare, probably unique, example of Waterford printing. I t is entitled "Historical Reinarks of the City of Waterford from 853 to 1270 (Waterford, printed and sold by G. Wilson)." The date of pttblication has been erased, or cut, from title page but from the context we gather it must have been 1735 or following year. The work is "humbly Dedicated to Alderman Samuel Barker" and has the following foreword :-

" To the Magistrates and Citizens of Waterford.

Gentlemen, The Antiquity of my Types pleads for indulgence when any

of them appears in Eclipse, what other erratas you see if you please to excuse or correct then i t will d o ~ ~ b l e the Obligation. But above all if you'll- encourage the Sale of what is Printed I shall by that means speedily have a new Font of Letters to do Business to the Satisfaction of those that Employs.

Gentlemen, Your most H!~mble

and Devoted Servant, George Wilson. "

The rollowing statement of the author's-part of the statement a t any rate-is, to say the least of it, as strange as his grammar :-"Waterford formerly called by Antient writers MENAPIX by the Irish and Welsh was called Portlargi which it retaines to this day, there was a spring in the seller of the House where Mr. Windiver lived in High St. which was called Portlargi from whence the city seems to take its name."

In the National Library is a copy of "Wilson's Dublin Magazine" for 1764, which has a map and description of Co. Water- ford to which Mr. O'Cassedy has directed my attention. The description of Waterford gives the number of houses in the county and it refers to an immense decline in population just then in progress. Consequent on the general adoption of dairying the inhabited houses had " sunkJJ by 2,000 and the population by 10,000 within the past few years !

At Carsick-on-Suir i t says is the first bridge over the Suir from the sea. An account of the city refers to "two Popish chappelsJ' therein. P.


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F O U R T H QUARTER, O C T O B E R T O DECEMBER, 19 13,

Our Geoffrey Keating .

Memorial. By THE. EDITOR.

THOUGH the Keating Memorial has been completed the sum subscribed up to date is full £20 short of the amount expended. Evidently Irishmen have not yet commenced to realise how great a man was Keating, Keating has been mistranslated, mis- represented, and singularly misunderstood. Superior commentators have suggested that his history was fable and fantastic exaggeration ; modern archzeological

research, however, is not only vindicating Keating but suggesting his claim to be one of the great historians of all time. Irish scholarship is at last dispelling the mists and soon the true magnificence of Keating's work will be apparent even to his countrymen and appraised at its lawful value. In that coming day of light and understanding our generation, and generations that have gone before us, may have to bear the reproach reserved of old for the Philistine and heaped upon the barbarian. Truly, con- sidering Keating's life-the life of a hunted man in Irish woods- his work should rank as one of the marvels of literature.

I t cannot be claimed that our poor memorial is anything like adequate to its object ; it is only a very humble thing as monuments go, but it must suffice till the light is brighter-the light of national understanding-which we who have done this

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much .shall not be there to see. The photograph reproduced as frontispiece shows the inscribed slab. This is of limestone, heavy and solid, and very securely set against the east gable (or on site of the altar) within Keating's chapel. The Latin epitaph is from the accomplished pen of the Senior Professor of Ancient Classics, Maynooth College, while the Irish appreciation of the historian is Keating's own composition-his own estimate of the great Cormac Mac Cullenan applied to himself :-

Hic lapis in memoriam collocatus fuit Godfredi Ketynge sacerdotis, fidei divinae propugnatoris invicti, arguti camenarum auditoris, librorum veterum scrutatotis subtilis cuj us ex ore tanquam ex favo hodierni sermonis Gadelici rores melliti profluebant. Te, quem ob multas pro fide passiones nunc in coelis coronatum credimus, te, o Godfride, precamur, ut nostri patriaeque felici oratione coram ~ e d recorderis."

I publish herewith the complete list of subscriptions received to date. In doing this I beg to express the hope that, for the honour of Waterford and Lismore, which never produced a more distinguished son than Dr. Geoffrey Keating, the few pounds necessary to pay for our memorial will be forthcoming. As will be seen the total amount subscribed is considerably less' than £30 ; on the other hand the monumental slab and the repairs to Keating's chapel have absorbed about £50. In our next issue I hop; to be able to give an additional list of subscriptions, to announce that all liabilities have been cleared off and to publish balance sheet :-

Most Rev . Dr . Sheehan .... .... .... Deiseach .... .... .... .... .... .... Unused Balance carried over from Tadhgh

Gaodhalach agus Donnchadh Ruadh Memo- rial Fund .... .... .... .... ....

Mrs . M 'Craith, Loughlogher, Cahir .... .... Mr . M . Beary. Dungarvan .... .... .... Rev . P . Power. University College. Cork .... Society for Preservation of the Irish Language Sagart. Rome .... .... .... .... .... Mr . James O'Cassedy. Cork .... .... ....

.... Mr . Dan Fraher. Dungarvan .... .... Mr . H . D . Keane. Waterford .... .... ....

.... Very Rev . Canon Sheehy. Ardfinnan .... Rev . N . T . Sheridan. Ramsgrange .... ....

.... Eev. L . Ormond. Waterford .... .... Rev . William Ormond. Clonmel .... .... Rev. R . Mockler. Tubrid. Cahir .... ....

.... Per Mr . John Kiersey. Belfast .... .... Mr . E . R . M'C . Dix. Dublin . . . . . . .... .... Miss Skeffington Thompson. Chislehurst .... Rev . M . Sheehan. D.D.. D.Ph.. Maynooth ....

.... Mr . M . Hickey. Portlaw .... .... .... Hon . J . D . Ryan. Newfoundland .... .... Mr . P . J . Lynch. C.E.. Dublin .... .... ....

.... . Rev . M Walsh. Dungarvan .... .... .... Miss Egan. Cahir .... .... .... ....

Seaghan O'Floinn. Carrick-on-Suir .... .... .... Miss 0 'Donnell. Cahir .... .. .. .... .... Various small sums ..-. ..... ....

£27 13 2

Postscript.-Since the foregoing was put in type additional subscriptions amounting in all to some £15. having been received . These will be duly acknowledged in next issue .

THE POWER PAPERS.

A Chapter from the life of a Clonmel Family in the Penal Days.

(Continued.)

Edited by THOMAS A. MURPHY, B.A.

1764, July 30, Chateau Si. Patrice [In French.]-Much about the wine, its sale, price, etc. I t wd. be a great matter for us to get Mr. (Dr.) Creagh (b) of Waterford to interest himself in our favour. He has been at Rome and as our ordinary, is supposed to have a. right to make a representation of this matter which depends on our side solely on sworn attestations and testimonies, except alone the chief document, our Father's will. All this looks suspicious to the judges where authentic evidence is usual. But when certified, lo that Irish Catholics have no baptismal and mortuary Registers kept for them, and therefore no other means of proving their titles but sworn evidence. 2" That moveable and irnmoveable property may validly be sold in Ireland from hand to hand without any Registry of Sale, etc. ; therefore, if the buyer refuse to give us a copy of the contract, we have no other way of proving the sale except by public notoriety. 3137 I t is objected that neither you, our late mother, nor our Father's Executors objected to the

(b) Rt. Rev. Peter Creagh, ~ i s h o ~ of Waterford, 1747-1774.

sale. The answer is :-You were then of age but in college on the Continent and knew nothing of the sale 'till you returned to Ireland. You were then obliged to be passive because too poor to carry on and succeed in a suit however just, against so rich a man as the purchaser, too poor also to refund him the ;purchase money, and could only submit to injustice and wait 'till Providence would partially indemnify you as a t present, by succession to your brother the seller's inheritance and property: that our mother and the executors were passive, even of necessity, from their having sent the children after our Father's death to be educated in Catholic countries, in violation of the Penal Laws which obliged them to give us minors up to be educated at home Protestants. Thereby they subjected themselves to corporal punishment and confiscation of all property, a penalty they might well fear the Purchaser would enforce, if they insisted on their right by law, either through revenge or as a means of defeating them utterly. This I think was probably enough the indirect cause why my mother, etc,, allowed Jack to sell the stock and lands to our injury. Draw up the case as closely and as persuasively as possible. Perhaps your Cud, Mr. Egan, (c) would assist you. Bring (hen a copy of the letter to Dr. Creagh to engage him to write thereon to Rome ; as our Ordinary he will get credit for knowing our case more exactly. I f you could get him of Cashel also, but if he be not warmer than before on the matter, don't press him.

The Waterford letter and the zeal of the Lombards will suffice. I began this letter a month ago, I am expecting your Frank every day: He comes this moment and I leave him space heie to write to you himself.

XI. (Enclosure in last ; letter from Rev. Francis Power).

Chateau St. Patrice, 30th July, 1764.-Rev. Frank tells his Father that he left his superiors and companions in Paris College on the 19th and after 10 days arrived here where he found the house to surpass his ideas of its magnificence. He left all in the <college in tears at his departure, Amy and Jack in good health.

(c) Rev. William Egan, Parish Priest, of Clonmel from 17.51 to 1796, and Bishop of Waterford, 1775-1796.

XII. Ibidem.-Br. Pierce had resolved to quit Jersey and bring

all his substance here. He left all, about E1,000 to his widow. God knows how his religion stood at the last hour-but he was sick 4 months. I was able to pay only 400 livres of Frank Bray's debts here. I am not pressed for the remainder. Poor Br. Joe is deep in debt and under a cloud in London, but keeps a decent outside. "Bray, I am told, continues keeping as warm a house as ever notwithstanding his misfortunes." You heard it seems before me of your Pierce's bad life. I give him up 'till he mends. Thank God I saved Jack from that infamous school, into which Amy's credit wd. have put him but for my opposition. [Much about wine, money, compromise of Law, etc.]

XIII. 1764, Sept. 20. 1bid.-Praises Frank's virtues, amiability

and goodness most highly "in short he gains here as In Paris the love and esteem of everybody, and makes me more happy in a companion than I ever remember to have been.'' He has restored my health and done more to dissipate my melancholy than all my cures. I hope to prevail on him to spend next winter in our famous Seminary of St. Charles which is adirzstar to St. Sulpice and governed by superiors of that house, and to take his Degrees in Divinity to which I find him well entitled and which does not cost so much in our University. I hope to work so as to have him useful in the Irish vineyard, [a Dignitary] but first I shall put him into my own place at Cassel, for which it will be necessary to get him naturalized : this with its registry will cost 600 livres, Then my friends advise me to resign to him, with a reservation of pension of 500 or 600 livres a year, but as such a reservation would cost 1,500 livres, I will resign to him simply not doubting his goodness, which will cost only 500 livres. Send me the money for naturalization, I'll do and pay the rest, and that too if you cannot. I intend to resign next winter and have him settled there in May. Make haste to procure and send the document I asked in my last, and let the Bishop's letter confirm and strengthen what has been more particularly declared and attested by the Confraternity of St. Paul, etc. Br. Joe is obliged to abandon Chelmsford and return to London. God help the poor man.

XIV. 1764, Dec. 12. 1bid.-"Poor Peggy bleeds my heart. I

wrote to them lately to comfort them, to which I can now add .that .I had yesterday an account of their son Tom's arrival there in good health." Abb6 Grant settled in that town as agent to Scotch mission (Rome, Paris ?) and my particular friend has been to see him with all the offers of services in his power, and says that he is a genteel, sprightly, promising lad and has particularly recommended him to his superiors. I have here a little law with little Collin the apothecary for the recovery of some of our brother's -(Jack's) assets. I t will be short. I had lately an account from Frank of his ordination, and of his being so happy as to support his brother with his daily contributions "till something better comes." My living at Cassel cd. not be in better hands and indeed I cannot help wishing it to him, but shall not press him.

XV. 1765, Dec. 10, Dunkirk.-A warm and. angry letter to the

Doctor for price of wine.

XVI. 1765, Dec. 29, Chateau St. Patrice.-The remonstrances of

my friends warning me against the danger of being totally unpro- vided for, if Frank should die before me, have made me resolve on resigning Cassel to him under a pension of 600 livres per year, the one-third of its revenue. Doing it in this way will cost 1,000 livres more than if I resigned it to him simply, so that the total expense before he is in quiet possession next May will be 3,000 livres. I expected to be able, if you were not, to meet this expense. ,

But no, Mr. Kavanagh has been sick and sold none of my wine. He has retired, wound up his accounts, and finds me justly 700 livres in his debt, But he yet generously allows me to draw upon him for 4000 more on the credit of my wine in his hands. Until it is sold, I can do nothing for your anliable Frank. However, I will send him next month to the seminary and to take his degrees in 3 months. If then no way occurs of meeting the expenses of naturalization and placing him in Cassel, we both think it the

best plan for him to go home by Bourdeaux, and in a year I may find some way of meeting these expenses. In the meanwhile I will secure myself by returning next St. John's Eve to Cassel, against my chapter who are determined to seize my benefice owing to my absence, as its only ground was my office of Almoner to the Ambassador to Rome, and I have not attended to that office for the last 3 years.

XVII. 1766, Jan. 30, 1bid.-Dr. CreaghJs attestation was too late.

Better not present it now. I t would cause delay by the objections the adversaries would raise to prove it authentic. Frank is in the seminary since the 23rd Inst.

XVIII. 1766, April 30, 1bid.-In 3 weeks I must start for Cassel,

unless Amy who is working hard for me succeed in getting me dispensed. Frank will thefz also return to Ireland. I have paid for him these two months b~st am unable to go any further, and I am grieved at letting him go without making him ta.ke his degrees. He is very sweet, amiable and captivating, but he is .indolent and fainkant. Place him with ~ r . Egan, your P.P., of whom I hear so much, and tell him to make Frank rise early, mind his studies and labour. The idleness and crapule of Cassel would now ruin him ; after a year's mission he will have the habit of labour, and then do much good at Cassel.

XIX. 1766, May 16, Avignon.-Your letter of 9th ult. reached me

on the very eve that Frank was to start for Bourdeaux on his way home. He will now stop here, as you desire, 'till I can place him in Cassel. He has talents, acquirements, good heart, sweetness, modesty and good manners in abundance, but he is lazy chiefly in the mornings. He is now resolved to correct that his' only fault, and I'll watch him. He cannot do much mission work here, but

he can improve himself by study. Amy has succeeded in getting me dispensed from Chapter for another year. She is also trying to get Peter promotion. Our little Bray can be of no manner of service, neither can he possibly aim so high as I have already proceeded in our favour [interest with friends in Rome about the lawsuit], but I shall soon recommend him to friends and do him all the service in my power.

x x . 176'6, June, 1bid.--The case offers no settlement. I am un-

easy in my mind about the vacancy I cause in my chapter, being absent now 5 years as Almoner to the Ambassador to Rome, M. D'Abilerre, and yet not with him nor in Rome. I fear too the chapter will make some work about it and dispossess me if I be not in Cassel or Rome next 24th June. Hence I am so eager to place Frank there, if I could get the expenses of his naturalization. Mr. Kelly of Paris consulted the best casuists there who decide that Frank' need not scruple to accept it notwithstanding his obligation to the Irish mission.

XXI. 1766, July 17, Chateau St. P,atrice.-Kavanagh died 24th

ult. That obliges me to go to Dunkirk to look after my wine and my account. I start for Flanders on the 22nd inst, Blake, his partner, carries on the business. Send Frank the £16 you promised him. Then he can go to Toulouse for the winter and also take his Degrees. He is correcting his indolence and is eminently sweet and virtuous, Next spring if we are able (owing to expense) we will place him in Cassel. I consider our suit at Rome as settled and daily expect a decree in our favour.

XXLI. 1767, March 13, London.-A jealous letter from Joe to James

agreeing to a compromise. .

XXIII. 1766, June 25, is the date of decree declaring null and frivolous

the objections of Illustrikus D.D. Canonicum Egid. de Resille, Hermanum et alios (sic) against the Execution of the decree given by the Revmo D.D. Vicario Generali, etc., in favour of Illristrrho D.D. Canonicum Jacobum Power and alios and 'therefore putting the costs of the suit on the conquered appellants.

XXIV. 1766, Nov. 12, Dunkirk.-This letter acknowledges a remit-

tance from Dr. Thomas seemingly for raising Peter in the Army and taking Jack out of it. He recommends Jack to be bound t o a surgeon at Montpelier. He says he is foolish and idle. Paris would ruin him. He says 'the adversaries can and I fear will appeal to Rota.'

xxv. 1766, Dec. 2nd) Casse1.-I am here since Aug. 12. I delayed

to write to you 'till I could send you, as I do, a copy of the Roman Decree in our favour. They appealed at the moment, perhaps. only in sulk, but that hinders me from the benefit of the Decree 'till I can get an order for its execution, which I lost at Avignon by one vote and unjustly. 1 suspect my attorney of bribery. Mr. Grant from Rome and Mr. Kelly the cordon bleu of the Dominicans, have stood well to me. The cause if they prosecute the appeal must be lost if I cannot go to Rome. I can no longer be absent from my chapter on the former pretext. The only plan then is to put Frank in my place. I will resign simply t o him or get a little simple benefice for him in our chapter and then permute with him, trusting to his honour. Send me wherewith to naturalize him 600 livres and 400 for his journey hither and his taking possession,'etc. I'll pay the rest.

Pierce is now on his march from the Isle of klkirron (?) to, Bouchire. I lodge now in the college formerly of the Jesuits, now administered by secular priests.

XXVI* 1767, May 15, Dunkirk.-Mr. Kelly, O.P., takes care of our

suit in Rome. Peter has no correspondence with me since he planned to get my money. Jack is still wretched in the Army. Take him home. He would return to study but is unfit and un- talented. Frank lodges at St. Patrice and boards in the village. I had a consoling letter from Ned. God grant the persecutors of his Society do not succeed.

XXVII. 1767, Jan. 31, Casse1.-Our adversaries gained a victory

over us owing to my absence and the villainy of our Italian Agent.. Fr. Kelly, a distinguished Dominican of much influence has taken it up for me and has engaged Cardinal Corsini and others in our interests. Send me as soon as you can the 600 livres for Frank's naturalization. I have written to Jack your wish that he should continue in the Army since by entering it he precluded his return home and thereby rendered studies useless to him.

XXVIII. 1770, Aug. 4, Cassel. (This letter in English and the two

following are directed by post to 'Mr. Edmond Power, at Mr. Shelton's of Weston, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England,' and each of them contains some lines to Eim, but the greater part of each is addressed directly to his father, Dr. Thomas).

The vineyard, which since the winter of 1765 hardly paid for its charges, is improving. This year it produced 38 Hogsheads which sell at £6 6s. Ocl. per (H) at Dunkirk, and in a few years i t will produce 100 Hogsheads. My fears of Frank are vanishing: He is incapable of what I apprehended. He is to send me in a monthly journal and a yearly full account of all the charges and produce of St. Patrice where he has been too badly off since I left it, viz., on his board and lodging and his altar retributions only 5 sous a day. Naturalize him quickly and I am willing then to resign, or if as you expect he may get a living there (Avignon ?), I'll resign and go live with him there. When Jack could not

compass his designs on the yearly allowance of 800 livres at Paris he regretted to have quitted his commission, and Amy having prevailed on Mr. Butler to restore it to him, he has again gone to join his corps.

To Edmond. My proposals to you proceeded from my per- plexity about Frank's proceedings, but little damage is done. He is incapable of violating conscience or my trust. I am sorry your duties did not allow you to come visit me. . Spend a month with me next year. Mr. Sheldon's sons are, I am told, gone to Brussels on a tour to Holland.

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1772, July 12, Casse1.-Poor Br. Joseph is at length ruined. Make up the 100 guineas for him. ~ o r ~ i v e Jack and help him. He really did lose all by the torrent. To Edrnond-Do not let this summer pass away without coming to visit and console me.

XXX. 1772, Sept. 3, Casse1.-Pleads hard for Joe who had fled to

Paris. Tells of having borrowed through Dr. McMahon money at 9 per cent. interest for him of Woulf the Paris Banker. He is now doing better. Says ' I m i l l bring Pierce to spend his winter quarters here with me.' He pleads very hard for Jack, discarded by his Father on account of the adventure at Corsica. Presses Edmond to visit him.

XXXI. 1773, April 16, Cassel..-To Dr. Thomas Power, Clonmel.

1st A letter from his son Pierce and then a 2nd from his Br. James. Both beg his father to forgive Jack his folly and to h.elp him with money. Both praise Jack's goodness and virtues and both state that Pierce spent his last 7 months, his winter quarters at Cassel, with his uncle who praises his -virtues and religion. Br. Joseph

. still at Marseilles attending a travelling patient. Says "Amy returned to Paris although I advised her to stay where she is and is so well liked as well as having a handsome allowance. I expect

our dear Edmond here soon, and then I shall get Pierce and Jack to spend some days with him. I hope to place Tom Bray in the community at Paris to pass a year with them before he goes home ; at least I am doing all I can for that purpose."

Letters of Rev. Edmond Power, S. J., to his father, Dr. Thomas Power, M.D., at Tallow (1760-2) and at Clonmel (1763-7).

XXXII. A. 1760, March 4, Liege.-I confess it is no short time since

I had the honour of writing to you last. My uncle at Cassel in- timated to me your orders to this purpose and I failed in complying only that I could tell you all about the effect of some medicines on my health. My headache is a great deal better. You think the state of life I have embraced requires too much for one of my health. No-it does not require, nay it does not allow me, to do anything injurious to my health. It requires only humility, patience, etc., of those that cannot do more. The happiness I feel in it is itself a medicine. The remorse I should feel in quitting it would make me ever unhappy. Except for the headache I was not better since or before I left Ireland. I had a letter from my uncle the 17th and Amy the 3rd of February. My two brothers in the college at Paris are well. I have not heard from Pierce for a long time.

XXXIII. 1762, Oct. 15, Ghent.--I wrote to you last

is better since I came here. I spent 3 weeks uncle at Cassel. His wine, too strong to please

May. My health in July with my the Dutch, would

be highly prized in England. Amy is improving of her rheumatism at St. Amand. Pierce is at Dunkirk where his regiment lies since i t returned from Germany. I told you of Frank's final determination : he is now irrevocably fixed and is a Sub-deacon since the 18th ultO Sept. . Jack is dull and will make no figure at his books, They think of sending him to join Pierce in the Army. But let me beseech you to remember how' dangerous to virtue the army is.

The Society is under the greatest oppression in France ; it is entirely banished under some Parlements, and cannot but expect

to meet with the same treatment from the others. Our Province has lost one college (St. Omer's) and is on the point of losing another. I know not what is thought of these proceedings in your country, but here they are deemed persecution arising from heresy, im- morality and Deism. 1 send you a letter of His Holiness "the completest apology that can be made for us."

XXXIV. 1763, May 14, Weston.-To T. Power, Esq., Clonme1.-I have

discovered no acquaintance of ,the gentleman's with whom I live that can be of any great service to the lawsuit at Rome. I hear two Regiments of the Irish Brigade in French service have been .disbanded but dont know which regiments have been so treated after nigh a hundred years' service.

x x x v . 1764* March 30.-At Mrs. Sheldon's in the Square, Bath. I

am here since the 12th by advice of physician to cure headache, pain in the breast and stomach and shortness of breath, all which they say is from rheumatism which I inherit from my mother. I live by invitation at the Dowager Mrs. Sheldon's as above, and was pressed to come by the Lady and Gentleman with whom I live [viz., Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon].

XXXVI. 1765, June 28, Weston.-Cannot remit to Frank as you desire

the price of the shirts as a help to his naturalization. My whole salary here is £15 a year. My health is better. The poor Irish -whom they are persecuting to Rebellion should bear it with pious patience.

XXXVII. 1765, July 19, 1bid.-He sends a Dissertation on Castor Oil

and promised to send the best Valerian.

XXXVIII. 1766, Feb. 22.-I have sent you the Valerian. Am unhappy

at receiving no letter from my uncle the Canon. There is a disease here in Oxfordshire, a fever and $sore throat epidemic which is very fatal. !

XXXIX. 1766, Aug. 15, 1bid.-About the Valerian. Says the account

of the Persecution of the Catholics in Ireland is shocking, gives some lines thereon from Swift. Says "Tell me in your next of my uncle, and where is Frank? Sorry for Jack but he may do well yet,"

XXXX. 1767, May 2, Weston.-Had two letters from my uncle since

he returned to Cassel. Those he sent from Avignon were lost. Frank remains and is greatly esteemed at Avignon. Sorry Jack

his example. He must soon be tired of the Army When he is it would be well to receive him penitent him to regain your favour.

did not follow and his folly. and encourage

XXXXI. 1767, Dec. 29, 1bid.-Electioneering zeal has, perhaps, caused

my letter, which was franked to be opened. The Duke of Grafton detected that a letter of his had been opened and had the trans- gressor dismissed from his office of ,tI1;200 a year. Thank God that the Catholics have now a prospect of more peace, after four years of such persecution. Lord Radnor's Order of Parliament for a list of all the Catholics in England is very dangerous and bad. None are more safe and loyal than they. Love to my uncle and Aunt Bray.

XXXXII. 1768, May 30, Weston.-The difficulties we have to struggle

against are very great and humanly speaking, we must ere long fall a victim to the efforts of the different Powers that ar.? united

to effect our ruin. God's will be done. We confide only in Him and shall be resignedly pleased with whatever He shall ordain. The ,world hates us because we are not its own. "Omnes qui pie volunt vivere in Christo Jesu persecutionem patientur" are words read from scripture in the end of the Epistle of the Mass of St. Ignatius and contain a prophecy of what the order founded by him was to undergo in future times, and for this very reason are a subject of the purest joy to those who are His disciples.

" My position here does not authorize me to invite Mr. Musgrave or Mr. Rial to this family with which they have no acquaintance. But if I can I shall wait on them sometime or other at Oxford which is about 30 miles south of the place."

"There are two priests, both Irish now in gaol and will it is thought remain there the remainder of their lives, as their sentence is such. They were both very rash and indiscrete in suffering everybody known or unknown to be admitted to those places where they performed their functions-in private apartments. Their names are Dillon and Molony, and information was lodged against both by the same person-one Payne who was known to be an Apostate and Informer by profession. They were indiscrete and I think praise is due to the magistrate who warned them to beware of Payne." He praises the Irish for praying in their chapels for King George and regrets same was not ordered in England. He was sorry to hear of Pierce's difficulties. After 20 years experience of rising and falling @e entered the army in 1747-81 he ought to be more thrifty. He says Frank I imagine is at Cassel or will be there soon, as my uncle talked of resigning his benefice to him about this time.

XXXXIII. 1770, Dec. 19, Weston.-He rejoices his Father received so

much benefit from sea-bathing. Would be glad but fears he cannot join him at the sea next summer, because his absence would be dangerous to the piety of his flock. His Superiors wd. not easily give him leave so soon,his finances are low, and he could not consent that his at her should pay his expenses as he so kindly proposed. Is greatly satisfied with his uncle's integrity about the wine, the chateau, etc., and. regrets that Frank's indolence in

rendering him the accounts he so justly demands, should make him change or defer his intention of resigning Cassel to him, which would be so great an advantage to Frank and the family. "I congratulate you and the whole Diocese on the prospect you have of Mr. Egaxt's being appointed Coadjutor to your present Bishop; You have my sincere wishes for the promotion of a man, who seems perfectly qualified to fill a place to which so many others aspire without once seriously pondering the difficulties of the task and their own want of abilities to discharge it. To how many of the present Incumbents may with justice be said-

That, like the Pastors ofl the Ravenous breed : They come to fleece the flocks and not to feed.

XXXXIV, 1771, March 23, Weston.-(torn and imperfect) .-On his*

father's health. Fears he cannot get leave to go see him following summer. Had a letter from 'Jack the conqueror of Corsica.'

, xxxxv. 1772, March 31. [No place mentioned].-Tries to reconcile

his father and the Abb6 [James of Cassel].

XXXXVI.

1772, April 1st. [No place mentioned].-Have had now a letter from my uncle, which it is but justice to him to transcribe a part of for you, He says he is charged with poor Joe and has to pay 1,100 livres for him and goes on-"My sister Bray told me last week of the death of her son, her best support. I must try to repair the loss as best I can. Our dear Frank writes to me of a project formed by the Canons of Orange to place him among their Prebends (worth 1,500 livres a year) on the first vacancy ; which must be soon as some of them are between 80 and 90 years of age. I resigned to him my share of St. Patrice with directions to him how to dispose of it. I wish your Father wd. do the same. I will do all in my power to regain the dear man's friendship. May God unite us all."

XXXXVII. 1774, Nyv. 30, Weston [to his sister Kitty].-He feels very

thankful to Kitty and her friend Miss Esmonde for the pains they are taking to make him a P.P. in Ireland. He says "But consider well whether that will be of any use to meet your debts and serve 'you, whether the emoluments of a Parish afford anything beyond the necessaries for support, that I could spare to you. My connections here are agreeable but I would sacrifice them to serve you. What does Dr. Egan mean by his answer to Mr. o on an ? I t looks like duplicity. As the proposal has been made and favour- ably received by Dr. Butler, better to say nothing about it to Dr. Egan.

"I am glad young Bray has met so good a friend. The Primate of Cashel will never abandon him as long as his behaviour deserves protection, and from the character that Bray bears in everybody's mouth, he must gain upon him every day. I have the honour of being personally known to the young Archbishop who is a very intimate friend of my uncle ; and I make no doubt but he would serve me to the best of his power. I t is better you would thank Miss Esmond for me than that I should write to her. I do not know her nor she me except through you."

XXXXVIII. May 9, Weston [to Kitty].-Confined by an obstinate cold

since Easter; latterly better. Frank's very shameful conduct to you [seemingly in not writing to her] is of a piece with his conduct to the Abbe, to myself and to others. We are all equally neglected by him as if he had no connection with us, and perhaps it would be well for several of us if he had not. The Abbe in a late letter complains bitterly of his silence. Amy and Frank are in close correspondence which makes the Abb6 uneasy about the produce of St. Patrice. He is now resolved to sell it off as soon as possible and desires you to send over a Deed of Procuration empowering somebody to act for your part. Name himself as I certainly will. He has also asked the same of Pierce and Jack. The sale is advised by all and is necessary to protect us from Frank's indolence and Amy's selfishness. The Deed of .Procuration must be in Latin, drawn up by a Protonotary Apostolic and authenticated by the

Archbishop, whose signature must again be authenticated in France as it easily can, at St. Omer's where Mr. Buder resided n long while. The Abb6 is now old and should we lose him before this affair is settled I am very apprehensive that Amy and Frank will be too much for us all. If I wrong them it will give me great pleasure to acknowledge my wrong before the world and to beg their pardon. But appearances are against them. If they wrong us, may God forgive them.

XXXXIX. 1776, April (a broken imperfect letter to his father).-Tells

the routine of his duties at Weston. His congregation is about 100. Says morning and night prayers for family and reads a sermon written by himself. Says 'our papers mention a reward of £300 being offered for apprehension of Nicholas Sheehy, a Priest of Shanrahan in Co. Tipperary, guilty of treasonable practices, and £300 for every Jesuit taken dead or alive in the kingdom of Ireland. The latter would be so wicked, it can hardly be true.'

Letters of the Rev. Francis Power to his father and sister:

XL. 't. 1761, April 16 [to Kitty at Fethard ; playful] .-Though blessed

with a harmonious musical voice he shall never try to catch a thobsand pounds (sic). Sends compliments and letters to cousins Kitty and Pierce Bray, his aunts in Clonmel, the Musgraves of Tallebridge, and Lord Butler (Dunboyne Bp.) Says "I forgot telling you that Ned the old Jesuit is priested and must soon ,

leave the college. "

I LI. 1762, Sept. 25.-To his Father.-About his doubts and in-

vestigation of his vocation. Made a week's retreat and was con- madded by his extraordinary and ordinary director to go on. His /choice is now irrevocably taken since this day se'ennight in obedience to advice and his own ,own unchanged inclinations, whiih his director said were always precarious and often deceitful.

"I shall no longer be a burden to you. My pension will be free, and I'll endeavour to clear it. Jack has been obliged to double -

Froisieni (?) with many others. I t will serve him. Pierce is a first Lieutenant and will soon be a second Captain in his Regiment. '' .

LTI., LIII. 1763, July.-Two letters on one sheet.-The first from Jack

isking his Father's consent to his giving up the study of Physic and joining Pierce in the Army and asking also for some money. The second letter is from Frank proving that the army is better for Jack than Physic whose students here are profligate infidel scamps. Jack has been very sick since the 12th June, is now convalescent, and will soon start for the Army. " My uncle when here approved of Jack's course. He hoped to reclaim Ned, but I fear he is too well satisfied with his situation to change it so soon.'' Asks money for Jack, Amy and self.

LIV. 1763, May 26, Paris [to his sister, Kitty].-Amy succeeded

in getting my uncle appointed chaplain to the French Ambassador going to Rome, in preference to 500 others sueing for the position. He will go immediately there though the Ambassador may not go for six months. He is too good-natured to the family. "It is needless to tell you what share I take in. Poor Uncle Bray's misfortune, but the prospect of seeing that dear family soon restored to ease and independence relieves me. You think to flatter me by the promotion of Dr. Butler to the See of Cork on account of the friendship his Lordship honoured me with, and who as you term it, will surely procure me a living. Though I sincerely rejoice at his election, yet I would pity his Diocese and himself if he were compelled to bestow a benefice. upon a person so universally unqualified for the care of souls. He, however, knows Canon Law better than you would seem to wish. But unless Dr. O'Brien rejects me, which I may very well deserve, or allows me to exchange Dioceses, which though I should wish, I shall not call for, I could accept no appointment either in Cork or elsewhere without a formal comtempt for sub-ordination and discipline.'' He warmly

LV. 1764, April 7, Paris.-Jack 'still here under Mr. Kelly but as

yo7 direct on the eve of being sent to College of St. Barbe [for Physic]. He insinuates slyly his advice for the army. " I proposed To Bray's reception to Dr. Kelly to which he consents on the T foll~wing conditions. lo That he be 16 years of age or thereabouts. 2" That his views are for Holy Orders. 3" That he be qualified for the) class of Troisikme (which you can examine by making him translate a passage without the aid of a dictionary). 4" That he pay for the first year a half pension, viz., 150 livres. When all this is answered he can set out next June or July in order to be

during the vacation to prepare the Catechism and make his Confession before the classes open. As this house and it

alode is regulated on the wants of the Irish mission, it were better for fornmyls parents to prefer it to any other place notwithstanding theiexpense, which after the first year will be only £7 for various littie necessaries.

' Rev. Mr. Meagher of Co. Tipperary, Confessor to the Hotel ~ieu;@died here last month, leaving all the little he had to Stephen andl M. Hacket of Orchardstown. Shortly after died our Irish Historian the Abb6 Geoghegan.

Amby Kearney your relation, the flower of the Irish Brigade, l and last week made by Lord Caher a captain in one of the New

Portuguese Regiments, died last night from apoplexy after dining at Lord Caher's.

He talks at large (of Frank Bray's late disgraceful conduct and debts at Avignon.

l a u p Dr. Butler's virtues, qualifications, etc., rejoices heartily at pis elevation as a great blessing to the Church and sends respects to Lordship's sisters, "particularly to Betty for her remembrance of p e in her letters to little Charlie (Kearney), the best scholar in his class and the best favourite in the school, who will do us honour. Mrs. Kearney need not thank me for the little: services I cbn do him. Amby Kearney told me that Paddy Bray is well settled in Spain, but I know not where or how. I fear the shock my uncle received has impaired his health : at least both he and the whole family must be under great alarms. God Almighty codfort and assist them."

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1764, July 10, Paris (to LVI. Kitty) .-Starts very playfully. Is

nearly two years a Sub-deacon, ten months a Deacon, and will be ordained priest on the morning of Saturday the 22nd of next September-"which if I could avoid without resisting the Will of Providence all the persuasions of human eloquence would never induce me to take." On the 4th October next I expect to sing my first Mass, and thus begin my ministry by craving the Inter- cession of my holy Patron, who though a Saint of the first order, yet through humility would never receive Priesthood, but remained a Deacon until 'death. (Frank is older than Kitty and she was born in 1738). Since I began this (18th June) Jack is gone to another college and Amy to Flanders to the baths. Uncle James .

is pressing me close to accept his Canonship, worth £100 a year. If I do it will only be to provide against my father's death, and for you, Amy and Jack after his death.

LVII. 1763, Jan. 5 , Paris (to his Father).-Jack is doing very well at

his study of Physic and is good and religious. I am unanimously exhorted by all our ablest countrymen to accept my uncle's proposal, but I shall not finally resolve until the Grand Penitentiary, an eminent Canonist, whom my director has consulted, shall have decided the case ; and then I'll follow his decision . . . . I intended during the first 10 months of my Divinity to take out my degrees and frequented the schools accordingly : but I saw it so little to my purpose to be a Graduate whether my call were for Ireland or for Flanders that I gave over writing and gave myself to more profitable reading. " Si je pourr0i.s ;tre docte, je

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me passerois bien d,etre Docteur. "

LVIII. 1766, May 17th) Chateau St. Patrice [to Kitty].-On receipt

of yours of the 1st November, I began to answer it-but ceased, thinking I should see you soon in Ireland. My baggage was packed and I was on the eve of departing when my Father's counter- manding letter arrived to my uncle. Amy also wrote to assure

him of the protection of the lainistry against any proceedings of his chapter against him far absence. Amy also equipped Jack I know not how. He is now with Pierce. And she is dunning

, all the Bishops of her acquaintance on my account and expects to begin by making me one of their Grand Vicars, a dignity which I am as unqualified for as it is beyond my ambition and revenues, Apologise to Aunt Bray for an expression of mine-I fear Pierce Bray must have heard of it. Tell me how he, Paddy, James, Frank, Mick and the girls are. (Such was the Bray family).

LIX. 1770, April 9, Avignon (to his father).-Jack no sooner received

your will than he took leave of his corps, though against his own will, returned here on the 3rd April, and left for Paris and his books on the 7th. He was greatly beloved and esteemed in the Army. He is the tallest of his brothers and in every way good. He proposed to walk hence to Paris-140 leagues, with only £2 2s. in cash. I borrowed £8 more for him, which please send me before May.

The accounts I receive of Cousin Bray are most agreeable-: he is a sweet youth and by great odds the cock of his Seminary. The poor child would gladly get into our Community a t Paris, as by late accounts he cannot return to Rome, and does not find his studies a t Avignon calculated for his purpose. I expect to prevail on Dr. Kelly, and the Archbishop will probably engage his former Superiors to grant his wish. 'Tis really a pity such a subject shd. be buried in obscurity. As his pension is paid until June I shall take no decisive step as yet but have previously desired a friend in Rome to sound the congregation's dispositions towards this plan which if it succeeds, will be less expensive than to maintain him where he is. As the passage from Leghorn proved so favourable to his disposition, would I not do well to ship him at Marseilles for some port in Normandy ? But as the sea is so long and dangerous, I wont do so without your approbation and his parents' consent. Pierce must be in Toulon on 1st May-his health is delicate-my uncle is displeased at his stay here. Assure Pierce of your pardon by clearing his account here from the 1st August to the 1st May, viz., 150 livres. All my allowance is 5 sous every day I celebrate,

LX, 176 (Sic.) To his father (in French) .-Writes by a son of Lord

Southwell who is going to join his Regiment in Philipstown, and wishes his Father to pay him every attention passing through Clonmel. "This Lord's family have been at Avignon for the past two years and none of our countrymen have done Ireland more honour. "

"I have not preached since I came here, nor shall I, for they would not understand me in French and I cannot freely speak the Provencal : but I write sermons which I can deliver and which are understood in Cassel. I also study Scripture, Canon Law, and Casuistry, though I greatly fear the care of souls and try all I can to keep it at a distance."

Collin the Apothecary is giving much trouble by his chicanery. " Mr. Staff ord is at Rome and writes to me. Amy and M. Kelly

are working to secure my naturalization, one by her interest, the other by his lights. The sum you sent, or at farthest very little more, will suffice to cover all expense, but my uncle is greatly afraid of the expense of expediting the Bulls, and the others attending the Dataria. He did not approve of Jack's return to Paris- yet it is the best plan. His studies there to be right will cost 700 livres per annum. After the first two years of nny establishment I could well bear a share in this and the other expenses of the family. You ought to clear up M. Kelly's account : this debt has cooled him to us and he is a sbcere and serviceable friend."

Letters from Dr. Thomas, Amy, Pierce, and Jack Power, Dr. Bray and Mr. Musgrave :

LX1.-LXV, 1765, Nov. 28, Clonme1.-Dr. Thos. to his daughter Kitty.-

Kitty Bray died last Saturday. Frank was priested last St. Matthew's Day. Private domestic matters.

1762 (Paris), May 15.-Amy to her Father (at Mr. W. Cook's of Tallow).-Describes her rheumatism, medicine, etc. "I hear Kitty has left the Musgrave family and is at Fethard. Jack is not fit for study, etc.''

1772, Sept. 12, Gravelines (Pierce to his Father; in French).- Begs pardon for past faults and pleads for' Jack who really lost all in the torrents a t Corsica, as did also Mandeville, and who has repented of his voyage from Corsica to Paris. He is greatly esteemed by his Superiors and comrades. Pierce thanks his Father for £6 sent to self and Jack, and for annual pension of £10 settled .on him by his Father. Fellow officers Crotty gone to Cork, Fitz- Gerald to Mr. Ronan's.

1759, Nov. 27, Cork.-John to Kitty.-Hired a lodging last Sunday at Mr. Connor's, Bachelor's Quay. Dined on Monday a t Frank Gold's and will sail on next Friday.

1763, Mantes sur S e i n e . John to his Father.-Detained a t - Mantes with ague these 3 months. Attended by Religious Hospit- alieres and by Dr. O'Flynn their physician, nephew to the Abb6 OmFlynn of St. Germains, who speaks much of you as his friend. Direct to M. Roche, Cadet in Bulkeley's Regiment a t Bouchin; Flanders.

NDER the heading of " Phenomena " the diarist from time to time records some curious and interesting items, for instance, the moving or slide of a turf bog near Golden in April, 1788 :-"Various were the reports in Carrick of this wonderful moving bog ! Some who believe everything swallowed i t (not the- bog, presumably, but the story), and some, who- believe nothing that they don't see, laughed a t it.

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By REV. P. POWER.

and diverted themselves at the expense of the credulous for a whole. week, when, lo ! on Thursday the 10th of April a t 2 o'clock, the river appeared black which colour increased towards evening but the water did not swell one inch ! and now half after six on Friday

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morning tis still blacker than i t was yesterday evening but t he river is something lower. The bog is known by the name of mdtn 0113. The salmon and trout are running ashore and dying. The 24th of April I found' a dead salmon floating down the river.. Monday, 5th of May, the water began to look somewhat clear. Monday, the IZth, appeared quite clear."

It was quite an era of natural marvels in Carrick, for, a few months earlier, a school of porpoises paid the old town a visit. On September 6th they appeared below the bridge but departed soon-all but one individual who, alas for himself, found i t impossible to tear himself away. With most un-Carrick like hospitality h e

was greeted by many musket shots above the mill pond and finally he was captured in a salmon net by Andrew Connors, Will Hylan, and the two Droughans. On Wednesday, June 19th, the largest ox ever'hitherto seen in Carrick was brought in from Curraghmore by Downey, the butcher. We are not told the weight of the beast, only that i t was purchased at Cuiraghmore for £31, that i t yielded 16 stones of fat and 1 cwt., 1 qr., and 11 lbs. of hide, and that the meat sold at 8d. per lb. and the tripes a t 13d. a .couple ! . Under date July 29th, 1803, the Diary records an extraordinary occurrence. The tide that day at Carrick was full a t 12.45 p.m. It ebbed for fifteen or twenty minutes, and then set in again for another period of fifteen or twenty minutes, when finally it ebbed as usual. The writer and Mr. Francis Doyle observed the strange phenomenon which, says the diarist, was quite palpable. This suggests a shock of earthquake or an earth tremor of some sort. Amongst further natural phenomena alluded to is a particularly severe frost on the night of December 15th, 1788. This in fact was the hardest single night's frost ever, up to then, remembered in Carrick. The river was frozen over above the bridge and a boat's cable was cut-presumably by the ice.

As I have not before me copies of previous issues of the JOURNAL

I cannot say for certain whether Philanthrophy was one of the heads under which in the first instalment I classed the contents of the Diary. Assuming it to be one of the headings aforesaid I may group under i t a number of entries relating to relief of the poor and the sick. Harsh as is the lot of indigence to-day i t must have been immensely more cruel a hundred years ago, . before the present state provision for relief of poverty had been thought of. In those hard times it was quite possible for the deserving poor to die of hunger. Poverty was more general and mare grinding than to-day ; the great mass of the population was constantly in fact on the very verge of extreme want and a considerable proportion had sunk beyond the verge and into the depths. On the other hand popular generosity as expressed in almsgiving was-because more called for-on a bigger scale than to-day. This is illustrated by the first item under our present heading. A subscription for relief of the poor of Carrick was opened in the town, March 2nd, 1798. The subscriptions of those present a t the inaugural rneeting reached 104 guineas, equivalent,

of course, to a much larger sum-probably £250 or A300 to-day. I hardly think a similarly generous response to a similar appeal would be made in Carrick now. Two years later (February, 1800)) with potatoes at 4d. and 5d. a stone and meal proportionately highly priced, the lot of the poor was again particularly trying. A public subscription was again set on foot. This time it reached £100 although less than half the town had responded. By end of May same year, things had considerably disimproved : then it was found necessary to open (by popular subscription, of course), a public kitchen at which soup, porridge, &c., could be supplied to applicants for food. A third appeal, this same, hard year of the union, resulted in a yet further subscription of 200 guineas of which sum Mr. Wm. Smyth gave 15 guineas and his brother Justice Smyth-nothing. I t is for credit of humanity satisfactory to find that the latter named individual did eventually give "something." There were no early potatoes in those times. By June 8th) no potatoes at all were to be had in Carrick market, and in the country, when procurable, they sold at 8d. per stone. Oats this year was selling at El. 4s. per barrel and wheat at £4. These figures do not mean that farmers benefited particularly by the high prices for the prices were occasioned solely by scarcity.

In 1790 Mr. Walter Woulfe, at his own sole expense of ,6120, built a charity school for Carrickbeg. The building he gives rent free, besides contributing an annual subscription of three guineas towards expenses. The diarist breathes (and writes) a prayer that the generous founder may obtain his reward. The school opened on August 26th with an attendance of eleven boys, whose parents were not able to pay for their schooling. The Pill charity schools at Carrick-on-Suir were not opened till sixteen years later, sci1.-the male school in April, 1806, and the female school in September following.

Under the auspices of Major Pitt of the Dorset Militia and Mr. Frances White, an effort was made in 1799 to establish a Friendly Society in Carrick. The first meeting was held in Mr. Lynch's schoolroom on Sunday evening, August 18th. Some progress was made at the meeting with the adoption of rules, etc., and our diarist himself was appointed secretary. Alas that he has to record later-the Carrick society, like so many Irish projects, came to naught. For Major Pitt, the prime mover in the Friendly Society

project, our diarist has a warm admiration. He however does not inform us that this gallant soldier was what we should call to-day an active social worker and that he published a pamphlet on destitution in Carrick, for relief and to some extent prevention of which he advocated 'certain measures..

Of matters political, apart from the Insurrection, the diarist has little to tell. A parliamentary election for Co. Waterford which commenced on April 29th, 1790, ended May 7th in the return of Right Hon. John Beresford and Sir James May of Mayfield. Their opponent was Richard Power, Esq., of Clashmore, who besides losing the election lost his son in a duel arising out of election fever. The d i a ~ s t tells us the murderer was a Mr. Gumhleton and that by all accounts the murdered man but got his deserts. An election for Knights of the Shire for Tipperary took place about the same time and resulted in the return of Messrs. Toler and Matthew. Allegation of corrupt practices was ,made in the case of Matthew, who was son to Lord Landaff, and the diarist adds that the unsuccessful candidate, Mr. Bagwell, intends to petition against the return. Seven years later saw another election when Messrs, Beresford and Power were returned for Waterford and Nessrs. Bagwell and Matthew for Tipperary. In 1807 Messrs. Power and Beresford were again elected (without opposition) for Co. Waterford, while Mr. Bagwell, evidently to the delight of the diarist, was rejected, although he represented the Government. On the same occasion Sir John Newport after a sharp conflict with Mr. Bolton was elected for Waterford city with much popular acclaim. "Sir John," the writer comments, "is the man of the people and was supported by the independent spirit of the people ! His conduct in the last Parliament is highly praiseworthy and as Chancellor of the Exchequer pe l acquitted himself like what he is an honest man and a true patriot."

To the Act of Union our entertaining chronicler devotes only a few lines.-"Union with England proposed and carried by a vote of the Irish Parliament-Lords and Commons. Strange indeed-and very strange that the Lords could be prevailed upon to sign their own degradation-their death warrant. If that is not compleat Irish blundering i t remains yet undiscovered what, in fact, ought be called so. Time will tell. All's well that ends well ! "

One cannot help regretting that our entertaining correspondent does not tell us more about the Insurrection. Details would be. now extremely acceptable. In his references to the terrible time and the doings therein our genial friend is very cautious, though his sympathies are mildly with the insurgents. His notes on '98, which are very scattered, refer mainly to movements of troops and courtmartial proceedings. Of the actions in the field or the bearing of the peasants in arms, he tells nothing and probably he knew nothing. One could arrange the material under dates and sub-headings in order, but exigences of time compel the present writer to quote largely verbation in this section :-

"For some time past civil commotions have raged very much in the kingdom between the parties (in the north) called Defenders and Peep-of-Day-Boys, afterwards denominated 'Orangemen.' I t proved to be only a religious dispute or at least it seemed so for a considerable time, when 10 ! it turned out (at the end of two or three years) very much in the shape of a spirit of disaffection to the Ruling Powers. I t became formidable in this year 1797 in so much that many parts. of the kingdom were proclaimed and put out of the Peace and the consequence was that Military Law superseded the civil law and much dismay and confusion followed ; murders, conflagrations, imprisonments and a long list of woes ensued.

"Sixth of December accounts arrived in Carrick that two Baronies in County Waterford were proclaimed ! May the Lord avert His anger !-Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny proclaimed in April 1798 ! City and Co. Dublin proclaimed in May. Great rumours here this day (May 26th) that a bloody battle was fought at Carlow last Thursday and another at Naas.

"The accounts this- day (May 28th) from Carlow and Naas are still very vague and uncertain-'tis said there were killed at Carlow of the Insurgents 473 and the accounts from Maas are very contradictory. No mail since Wednesday last--4 days !-We are left much in the dark ! The Dublin mail continued not to arrive for one entire week-There was great slaughter of the Insurgents a t Kildare and at Naas and at several other places in the Counties Kildare, Carlow, Wicklow, and Wexford. The chief stand is in the latter and there are these few days past marched through Carrick near 4 Regiments for the Co. of Wexford and some artillery

and waggons. There is important news expected hourly 'from thence. Tis said the Insurgents are in the possession of Wexford and have burnt Enniscorthy to the ground ! On Tuesday the 5th of June, the Insurgents made an attack on Ross, but were repulsed with very great slaughter. Lord Mountjoy, Colonel of the County of Dublin Militia, was killed. Perish the hand that laid him low ! On Tuesday, the 19th, the Forces moved to attack a camp of the Insurgents at Lecane or Carrickbyrne but they found it vacated, Upon which the army moved forward in pursuit of them and now (21st) there is no further account of their movements. 26th-Accounts r ed that the insurgents were completely routed from their camp at Vinegar Hill with great slaughter and Wexford retaken from the Insurgents without firing a gun,"

The rumble of the '98 earthquake was heard in Carrick long. before the shock itself was felt. As early as June, 1795, .portion of an English Foot Regiment (the Essex Fencibles) was quartered in Carrick as a protection against French invasion or perhaps as the diarist surmises "to keep us down." During their stay of five or six weeks these soldiers showed themselves "remarkably quiet, well behaved men." About the middle of July two divisions of Kerry Militia bound for the camp at Ardfinnan halted some days in Carrick and behaved themselves well, "tho' good behaviour is not one of their sins." During 1797 the diarist records the condemnation and execution "for Treason and being UNITED IRISHMEN" of four men of the Monaghan, and two men each of the Wexford, ~ i l d a r e , and Louth Militia. Several men of the last named Militia were likewise transported for a similar offence. In July also of this year (1797) detachments from nineteen regiments of horse came to Carrick to learn the "ungarian Sword Exercise." These, having completed their course of instruction, were reviewed . by General Crasby on 4th September and left town on the following day.

Courtsmartial soon became the order of the day and every road leading to Carrick resounded with tramp of marching troops. On Sunday morning, June 3rd, the Roscommon Militia marched into town on their way to Vinegar Hill ; they had with them forty prisoners condemned as United Irishmen to the Prison Ship a t Duncannon. One of the forty unfortunates was Mr. Michael Quin of Carrickbeg, who had been already flogged at Clonmel

"by Sir Thos. Judkin Fitzgerald, Esq., Sheriff of the County of ~ i ~ ~ e r a r ~ . A most Bloody and Inhuman punishment for- nothing. By a most bloody and inhuman ." Quin was a man who had deserved well of Carrick ; it was he who first introduced machine carding there. He was condemned to trans- portation but eventually he was sent to Dublin instead, and in a couple of years we find him liberated on bail. At this place the diarist has an N.B.-to the effect that many other treason felony prisoners, whose names he does not give, passed through Carrick under guard. As early as February of the year a young Carrick lad named Brophy was sent to Clonmel jail under a Yeomanry escort and charged with seditious practice. Will. Corrigan, a shoemaker, followed in April ; his alleged offence was '(pretending" to be a United Irishman and offering to swear a sergeant of the Piltown Yeomanry. May 25th) eight prisoners from Nenagh passed through for the prison hulk at Duncannon, and three days later passed a band of eighteen others, two or three of whom were said to be clergymen ("of both sides"). June 16th Yeomen Frank O'Neill, Richd. Magrath, and - Manderville were arrested in the 'ranks and conveyed under heavy guard to Waterford for courtmartial. Two days later the following were arrested in their beds-Mat t Kelly, watchmaker, Mr. Cary, schoolmaster, John Cary, publican, and Richd. Doyle (Pierse) yeoman. Their further fate we are not told. On June 22nd four men were publicly whipped on charges of sedition and to extort information, but no discovery was made. A week later one Hylan, a combmaker, was flogged for seditious language. Hylan appears to have made some admis- sion (?) on the strength of which one D. Kelly, a fiddler, was flogged the following day by order "of the bloody Lord Kingsborough." I t looks as if our combmaker is the informer and perjurer of that name who denounced th'e Parish Priest of Carrickbeg and some of his people and was cause of the barbarous flogging of Doyle of Carrick, and Mr. Clarke, the French master,

Mr. Francis of Clonmel.

O L D WILLS, (Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.)

Edited by I. R. B. JENNINGS, J.P.

(From originals in Public Record Office.)

Will of George Everard of Garrondillon, (a) Co: TipY-his wife Ellen, eldest son Edmond two thirds, John second youngest son

- one third of property. To Dr James Glysane, Par: Priest a young black filly & £4 6 8. To &Ir Wm MCCarthy one of executors, a young bay meare, Mr Hamilton Lowe ffetheard, Mr. Wm MCarthy Clocully & wife Ellen Everard, Executors, Present Laur: Fanning, Nichs White. Bond of £200 ster : due from M' Redmond Everard Bart. or some other person for his use.

26 Novr 1729.

Will of Gration Goss, Citty of Waterford-All to his wife Catherine Goss. £5 to her grand child ThoS Comby, declared by Gratian Goss in pesents of Alexr Desmaison, Pirce Butler, James Walsh-after or in my life-my ffrince book to Alexr Deslnaison in ye same order as a t p: sent, with the silver clasps on ye salme along w'th them.

(a) John Bray, Burgess of Clonrnel, member of Confederation Kilkenny & M.P. Clonmel in King James I1 Parlt lived at Garrondillon in 1677-He had forfeited under Crommell & by deed of 26 Mar ~ 6 6 9 was demised 478 acres in Knockballymallow als Knockballynemollogh for term of 31 years, by Thomas Juxon. 4

Adson of goods of Johannes Clancy Intestate late 'of Kil- darmudy firmarius, granted to Margt Clancy his widow by Thomas BishP watd & Lismore.

, Jos. Ivie. Reg' ejus.

Will of Isaac Quarry, Knockane-His farm, cattle &c. to be divided to two sons John & William, joint executors, to old servt Mary Ryane, house garden & grassing for four collops during lease of Knockane, rent free & to her two children my daughter by her £5 each at 19 years of age. To my good old friend Wm Gombon during my lease a house rent free for life & grassing for one beast

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& when he dies to daughter Esther. Prest Pierce Power, Robt Quarry, Will: Gambon.

~ d m o n of Goods of Timotheus Redmunds granted to Alicia Redmunds, Clonmell, widow.

Will of Simon Wells schoolmaster-All to his wife Sarah Wells (execux) & dauG Amy Elizabeth, & Lydia. Prest John Fell. Tho" Murray, John Sault.

27 JANY 1726.

Will of John ~ l l i s , Gent: Leaves a Moydore to each Edwd ~edmonds, Benjn Robinson, Wm Blackcoat (son of John Black- coat), his silver watch to John Norrinton, sword to ~ i c h ' Browne &. rest, bonds debts to Susanna Browne. Prest John Smith, David Walls, Willm Lonergan.

Will of Mary Lee, aE Keating, a& White of Waterford her daur Catherine Elliott, aii Anderson, a$ Keating three sons in Spain Wm MatW & Edwd Keating, each a ring pistole value & to s" Wms wife-to sd &G. Cath. Elliott her right 8 2 interest in ' Ferry of Waterford, and lease of it-to gr: daur. Mary Alyward £10 and furniture-linnen, six best dishes, & two doz: best pewter plates. To gr. da<r Cath. Elliott £10 & to daur Cath: Elliott big

Furnace & Brewing Pan & her father Keating's Wedding Ring & ye best Bond in house. To dear Joan Menchon £8, her father Lee's Wedding Ring, Silver Baker & small Brewing Pan. To gr. son Henry Quinn £20, & other Legacies to son James Quinn, c~usin ~ i c h ~ Strange, John Bardon, Pat Creadan, Ellen his wife, Cate Dwyer, Peter Burk &c. To servt Peggy Buckley, a silver beker, a new lute string hood, & pair of gloves. To John Higgins, Clarck, 43. Executors ~ i c h ~ Strange and Cath: Elliott a& Ander- son: Prest Mary Boourck, Edwd Gaul.

Adnl% of Goods of Thomas Donorthy, yeoman, late of Bally- keirogue, "caelibis, defuncti," by Martha Donorthy.

Will of James Allen, Reask, BarY Mid. third, Gent: devises to his wife Mary his stock & town and lands of Reask for life-and to* his 4 sons, John, James, Robt, & George, in 4 shares, 4 months after her decease, & if it do not seem proper to the Trustees- Mr Robt Sullivan of Ballylegat & Mr Jeffery Haghrin of Bally- phillip. To daG Sara £40, Thomas to get £40 or one fifth of ~eask-~ames to be inserted in any lease of Reask on its renewal. ~ a & to marry with consent of wife & Trustees, o s i s e one Eng: shilling. To son Samual, one Eng. shilling & no more. D G ~ Elizabeth to have a house & garden & grazing for two collups for life. Mr ~ i c h ' Bird Ballycasheen &. Henry Rogers, Gurrancro- bally, say only Execrs. Two or more with consent of Trustees may sell entire Intt in Lease of Reask. Prest Edward Power, Honora hX"' Power, Ellen hT Hylan.

mark mark

29 MARCH 1726.

Will of John Grumbley, Gent. City of Waterford, devises various property in City, Ballytruckle, Ramparts, &c., & Carlow to his wife Margery for life, and then to sons & daGs, Ellinor mard Edward Roberts. Alice Hall & son John-Fergus or Ferguson Farrell & son by Jane Grumly decd-also son-in-law Ross and wife Susanna & son-in-law Mr Patk Coppinger & da% Kathrin. Prest Francis Sautel, Yet Dennis, Clifford Dennis.

4 JULY 1726.

A h < n of Goods of John Darville decd by his widow Sara Darvile.

20 MAR 1725.

Will of Dennis Funucan, Co. Watd Gent. to sonne Dennis Funucan-Michl & Richd Whelan owe £10 arrears for rent of Deary. To son Morgan house at Bally Drislane lately pulled down & persons to be sued. Wife Edith Funucan to be paid sums due & leave her all right in Balljrdrislane. D& Joan. Dispute pending with Wm St Leger about price for copper pan which he sold for my use. I owe £5 to Mr Wm Taylor to be paid of money due by Christopher Worthvale, Executr to Stephen Worthvale out of Bill drawn with John SulJivan. Prest ~ d w ~ Cook, John Kenedy.

~ d m G of Goods of John Eeles, late Kilmacow, Kilkenny, farmer & of his widow Debora Eeles, by his eldest & surviving natural son Wm Eeles, Innkeeper, Waterford.

AdmG of goods of David Bourke, Barnakile, by decdS widow Joana Bourke.

12 FEB. 1723.

Will of Jonathan Badcock, Quaker, & shopkeeper, 'Waterford- to his wife Mary half his property, or half to children. Prest Dennis Doyle, James MCragh, John Read.

AdmG of Goods of Gulielmus Meagher late of Clonmell, Innkeeper, by his widow and Adminisx Margareta Meagher .

Admon of Goods of John Fling decd of Barroughcree, yeoman, by Maria Fling, widow.

27 AUG. 1726.

Will of Jane Robins, widw of Samson Robins, late of Water- ford, Carpenter; sekl small legacies-to d 6 r Jane Modorris, widw of

Wm Morris, W-ford, & - t o son ~ i c h ~ R, £5-to D ~ G Mary Jinks, Dublin, wife of Thomas Jinks, Carpenter, E5-to Eline Morris d a G of sd Jane A3, & to my dearly loved son Thoms Roberts, Carpenter referred to, his heirs & adminisrs-rest & residue of my worldly substance, Bills, Bonds, Book debts, Jewels, plate, to my sd son Thomas Roberts, sole execr. Prest Jane "F Robinson, John

maark Fell, Nicholas Power, Will Lovezee.

27 OCT 1726. 1

A d m 6 of goods of John Beasly, yeoman, city Waterford, by Elizabeth Beasly, wid. (10 Oct. 1702).

Will of William Dobbyn, Ballymakill, Esq., devises to his wife, except to eldest son Thomas & grandson Wm, then to his heirs male, & remainder to grd son Peter, son of Thomas, remainder t o son Hugh &c., & sons ~ i c d , Robert, G'lbert, James, John, Philip & their male issue Ballymakill for life to his wife, to pay yrly for 21 yrs. after her death £50 per an : to son Pierce the intt in Tythes of Kilmacombe & Killrnaclage. To son Andrew, if lie survive Pierce, sd Int. in Kilcoghan, & Ballymc Clode from Rt Hon. El of Tyrone. To son Michl Intt in Barrystowne from same-D~G Ann, Nary, Christabelle & Bellina-overseers & relatives Andw Dobbyn, Peter Carew. Prest John Eeles, Jasper Grant, Michl Tonnery. Appointed Robt Carew, Castletown, Joint Execr 26 Feb. 1704/5 -

& scratched out Pierce Sherlocks name, Prest J. lieynell, Alexr . Bryver, Margrett Grimes,

Adman of goods of Edmond Fowlow, decd Duffcarrick, Miller, by Anast. Fowlow-Thomas his son, next of kin, and legatee.

5 Nov. 1726.

~ d m o n of goods of Gualterius Power decd of Cheekpoint, sailor, by Maria Power, widow.

21 DEC. 1726.

A d m 6 of Goods of John Mooney, decd of Robertstown, farmer, by Jane Mooney, widow.

25 Nov. 1722.

Will of John Cooke, Clonmel. Wife sole Exr- to daGs, Sara & Ann Cooke, one half each. Plate valued £15. Prest Henry Thompson, John Attwood, Sta Moore.

5 JAN' 1726. B

~ d m G of Goods of Wm Bolton, Junr late of Faithlegg, Caelibis, decd b y Nathaniel Alcock, Co. Kilkenny, prinl cred'

7 JAN' 1726.

~ d m G of Goods of John Everard de Coolenesallough, (b) farmer, Co. TipY by his son Redmund Everard of same.

16 FEB. 1726.

~drnof ; of Goods of Dermit Grany de Scartnedriin by his widow & relt Brigid Grany.

20 JULY 1725.

Will of James Sherlock, Clonmell, Apothecary. To wife Ellen £30 per an: whilst widow, also stuff, furniture, p'ate, front of .

dwelling-house-except lodging-room to son Robert-& reserving unto my Lord Cahir his lodgings as he usually had them. Pierse ,Keating 'had a tenement. £100 each to three dairs Christian, Mary, Ellin. Son James. To sister Grace Walsh 401-, Catherine Stapleton 201-, Poor of Clonmell~5 by Revd ffather ThoS Hennessy, &c., & £3 for pious uses by him-to fathers Sweeny & ~ i c h ' Dwyer 201- a piece. To Cos. Patk Sherlock my sorill horse. To ffather Hennessy my intt in holding at Poulsallagh &c. Exec" Dr ~ d w ~ .Hickey, Mr Wm Power, Gurteen, & patk Sherlock. Prest patk Kearney, ThoS Comins, Pa: Brien.

26 MAY 1727.

Will of John Fitz Gerald, Prospect Hall, Co. Waterfd Leaves to his father, Richd Fitz Gerald of same place, all & particular £300 due from Rt Hon. Earle of Grandison, remaining of moyetie

(b) Coolenetallagh with Cullinaghmore, Raheen, Shanbally, & Kilnevinoge ,parts &c. of Ballyseechane were leased to John Bray (note p. 183) by Sir W m Talbot, Knight H.R.H. The Duke of York's Agent for term of g r years- 1st May 1678. ,

of my dec .mother's marriage Portion-also k20 per an: arrears- bequeathed me by Hon. Charles Villiers decd from Mr Rumble in England.

6 SEP, 1727.

AdmZ of ~oods 'o f Henry Rogers, Garrancrobally, by Susanna ' Rogers, relict.

1 SEP, 1727.

AdmG of Goods of Maurice Wise, Farentoneen, farmer, by Alicia Wise, relict.

15 JAN^ 1727.

Ad&= of Goods of David Henebry, Knockatorneragh, yeoman, by Honora Henebry, widow.

(No date).

Will of Gowen Lane, Meganstown, Co. TipY. Leaves all to children & br& George in equ9l shares, ExecutS John Carleton of Darling Hill, Co. Tip? & Peter Carew, of Ballyrnacpatrick, Co. Cork. They renounced. Prest Cha. Hepenstall, James Reddick, Mathyas Hallurane. (AdmG by son George & for others).

Will of Thos. Roberts. Leaves Intt in Lease of Dorro & Millerstown to son Peter (had also a bro? Peter). To children- . Walter £150, Margt £90, Ellen £80, Mable £80 ; Fun1 Exps £6, & £4 sterlg to the Rornish Clergy & poor to pray for my soul-all out of my substance to wife-nephew Peter Anthony. Prest. Peter Roberts, Paul Roberts, Mary Roberts.

Will of James Keating, Chandler, Clonrnell- James Keatinge £30 ; Ann Bradford, daG. of Ben Bradford £10, Rebeckah Butler, dahr, widow,£20; Mary Anslowe d&r £20; James Keating,Grandson, £10 & working tools. Rest to James & John Butler, grandsons. Execr M' John Bagwell, marchant, Benjn Pedder, and James Keating. Prest Sam1 Gordon, Sam1 Gordon, junr & Ifas Leggett.

24 JAN' 1724.

Will of William Power, Ballyvoyle, Gent, to eldest son Nicholas debts, stock, plate, &c. & Right, title, in farm of Ballyvoyle I

hould by lease from Collonell Robert Walsh, Pilltown, sd Co. decd & Michl Lincolen, City of Dublin, Mercht decd with clauses of renewal therein. By former deed I have settled said farm, Bally- voyle, on sd son. . Prest John Power, Jon Power, Bart Magner. To be buried in Stradbally Church, near my wife:

Adm& of Goods of Maurice Hagherine decd* sailor, Killarris- sagh, by his sister Maria Hagherine.

15 JUNE 1728.

Will of John O'ffea, Boulaten, to ffather Garrett Landers 201- prayin for Souls in Register Book Dayly praying for Dead. ffather Tho" Tyerny 151- & to each priest at funeral 218 to the number of three-rest to wife Margarett & children, James O'ffea & Catherine 0 'ff ea. Prest William Money, Eliz: Pendegast .

A& of Goods of John ffitz-Harris, late Ballynemony, farmer, decd by Thomas ffitz Harris, son.

11 Nov. 1728.

Adman of Goods of ThoTothall, late Clonmell, Gent by, sonosborne Tothall.

15 Nov. 1728.

AdmZ of Goods of Rchd Handcox, late of Clonrnel, Gent, by Peter Martin, Gent., Clonmell, for use of ffrancis Bloomer, youth ment in Will.

Due by Cash Note .... .... .... .... £16 5 9 ,, Acct signed .... .-.. .... .... 24 11 3 ,, Cornet Waldron .... .... .... 30 19 5

as apiers by his protest-17 Sep. 1728. RICH^ HAWKIE.

28 Nov. 1728.

Will of Sarah Cormick, leaves her house' formerly called "The White Hart" in St Patricks Street to James Hacket.

8 JAN^ 1728.

A d m z of Goods of Thomas Morrissey, Ballymullallagh, Par: Whitechurch, Yeoman, by John Morrissey, bror.

20 JAN^ 1728.

Admon of Goods of Edmund Murphy, Shanbally, by Joseph Barnes & Edmund Meagher of Par: of Kilshelan.

29 JAN^ 1728.

~ d m o n of Will of Geoffrey Power, leaves to wife & children & to Edmund Butler, Ballypatrick 401- Sr 401- for masses (decd '23 JanY 1728). Execr his br& John P. Prest Maurice Power, William Ryan.

1 APRIL 1724.

Will of Deborah Cooke, Clonmell, Widdow-Leaves Lease to =Grandson & dac;., mentions lease of part of lands of Rathronan held from Colonell ~ a k e r t o n . Her son-in-law Joseph Hoare. city of Cork. Prest James Goeing, James Castell, Wm Conner.

27 FEB. 1728.

Will of John Aylward, mercht waterfd-to son Wm A. Mercht house Br lands of Crosse (entailed by cod'). To son James all ather real & personal. .To d a u 3 Ann Campion, Joan Leonard, Mary Comerford £10 each. Prest Nicholas Hagherin, James Hagherin, James Nugent.

22 JULY 1723. Will of John Fling, Ballinduny, Co. Tip. Yeoman. To d a 6 s

Catherine & Margarett £20 each, Son William £20, wife Ellerior 416 and sole execx Prest Thos. Page, Wastly Hutchinson, Knock- lofty, John Kennenton.

Admcn of Goods of Catherine Fitz-Gerard alias Villiers, decd b y her husband Richard ffitz-Gerald, Arm@ Prospect Hall, Co. Waterford.

.I8 FEB. 1726.

~ d x n r n of Goods of Robert Power, Ballynebanoge, by Maria Power next of kin.

(No DATE).

~ d m z by Catherine Callaghan wid & relict of Goods of her brothers Denis & John Callaghan & of Alicia Meany ali Callaghan, wife of Thomas Meaiiy de Killinure, farmer, natural & legitimate sister of Eugene Callaghan, late of Comragh.

Will of Thomas Dobbyn, City of Waterford, Gent. Leaves. all to wife Ann, & sons William & Pierce. Prest Wm Dobbyn, Samuel Lightfoote, Nicholas L. Power.

Will of John Murphy, Inn keeper, Clonmell. Leaves to wife Rose Murphy & after to nephew John Murphy, viz. Dwelling Ho. !Lease 31 years of fields or Parkes from Coll: Robt Hamerton Cherry- fields-also Buckley's holdings-from Corpn of Clonmel, Cabbins, & garden in Poulelelough. To nephew,'John Murphy of Oldtown, Bantry Park, and a field, Pettybones, & rough farm in mountains? from Councillor Lucas. Executrs James Goeing & Stephen Moore. Prest Daniel Brennan, Richd Bryen, Thomas Luby.

30 JULY 1726.

~ d m y n of Goods of Robt Walsh late of Pilltowne, Co. Waterfd' by his son Pierce Walsh of Clonmel & Maria Walsh widow & relict of sd Robert.

23 OCT. 1727.

~ d m G by Ellen Congreve, & Roche wife of Ambrose Con-. greve, Armgr late widow & relict of William Roche of Glynn, , Co. Waterfd. James Roche son of Ellen Congreve & said Wm Roche her husband, at minor's age at Glynn departed this life.

Will of William Griffin, Gent., Carrick, Co. Tip. Devises. Leases &c to son John his grand son & others-Within 6 months of decease pay k50 to Revd Dr John Finton, Dean of Tuam. To be buried in St Nicholas Chappell, Carrick. Had estate in freehold, for years & fee farm & leases for years. Mentions wife's family,. Griffin, Lawrence, Corkeran, Keys, Miller, &c.-also " Forbids. Lane" in Carrick.

Will Robt Keating of Knockagh, Co. Tip: ~ent- to be buried in Par: Ch: Derregrath-wife Joane-az Prendergast, £12 & £16. per an: if not mentioned, also his own Riding nagg & moveable bed & to live with my son Mr Leonard ICeatinge, also leave her a gold cross with a chaine & Ring tyed thereunto. To my son Mr Michael my Vestments & silver Chalice & all other conveniencies hereunto belonging which he is to leave in my house during the life time of my said wife-also to Mr Michael the Holy Court, my own Prayer Book? together with a silver cupp-to Collonel Luke Keating to the use of his eldest son Robert-£65 due from Collonel Purcell, Loughma (already settled on son Collonel Luke Keating). To da& Mrs Donne11 Keating £50 & to grand child MrS Peggy Bray (c) £5. To Grandson D T o b t Callanan & nis three sisters Juggy, Mally R. Gilly £60 due by Dr Kien Callaghan &the Scullys. To sd Dr Robt Callanan, a Silver Tankard in pledge with me for £11 I lent him, To grand child Molly Power £10 with &4 her father owes me. To son James Keating my round flatt-bottomed Pann, & Brand Iron lately made to it. To Grandson Robt Keating Fitz-Michael, £20 in his father's hands, & acquit & discharge sd son Mich' all bargains & dealings happened between him & me from beginning of the world to this day except note of £20 with him. I devise to pay my funeral expenses. To my Lord' Cahir's eldest son a young gray. mare now grazing on lands of Cnocknefalling a token of my love to him & his father. To Father Dennis Fogarty out of the £5 he owes me 301- to repairing the Masshouse in Caher item to same to pray for me, to Mr Plunkett 401-. To Popish Clergy £5 to distribute as Execrs see fit. To my son Leonard Keating all residue, assetts & personal Estate. My Blessing to all particularly son James lately vexed & disobliged me & earnestly recommend to Mother & broz to satisfie & make him easy if not unreasonable. Wife Joane sole Execur & three sons Mr Michael K, Collonel Luke, & Mr Keonard K, three Trustees & Overseers. The £5 due from Father Fogarty to be applyed to himself, the Masshouse in Caher, & for Mr Plunkett. Prest S. Colgate, Arthur Keating, Dan, Kennedy.

Probate by Solomon Godart, Gei~t: Dublin, & Robert Keating Prin: Cred:

(c) Is this Mrs. Margt. Bray, md, John Rray of Cashel ? See p. 145-4 last No. of this Journal. If so her mother would be a Miss Keating of Knockagh.

23 MAY 1729.

Adrno; of Goods of John Power, late of Adamnstowne, by Galfried & Thomas Power, Adamstown.

25 JUNE 1728.

Will of Edmond Sherlocke, Upper Butlerstowne, Gent. To wife Mary £100 a year. To d a G Margarett £300, later £200, son Thomas £80, & E40 in 5 years. He has annuity of £20 from my br6? Thomas decd. To son patk g100. Prest John Kenedy, David Power, Walt. Power.

22 DEC. 1728.

Will of Maurice Flood, Caher Abbey, farmer. To Sons Mich & Nicholas, & daG Ellen Hood to be legally divided & remainder of £30 promised Darby Ryan with d G r Catherine Flood be paid to my niece in here in house with me, also an in-calf c o w 4 0 guineas in chest in house-& what will bury me in my pocket, £15 due me by Mr Denis Meagher of Knockballymaurice. Order a crown piece to Fr Edward English. 201- to father Denis Lonergan Par. Priest. Adrnrs Mr James Keating, Mr Leonard Keating. To my grand child a mare with foole, or a Fole by her side. .Prest Ja: Hickey, Thomas Hanlon, ~homasz!~ Costalloe.

(No DATE).

~ d m G of Goods of Daniel Guyry, Cloheen, Carpenter, by John Guyry, Cloheen, Yeoman.

20 JULY 1729.

Will of Hester Nucombe, City of Waterford, Widow-to be buried at Ballyhack near husband John Nucombe, decd. To gpnd-dau Margtt Doyle, daG of Edwd Doyle, Mariner Youghall £10, to be at interest till attain 13 yeak of age or be married, whichever happens first.

18 JULY 1729.

Will of Edmund Kelly, Carrick-ne-Shure, Shopkeeper, to be buried in Church yard, C. shure. Fr Redmund Bourke my Par. Priest lo/-. Rest to Jno. Kennedy, Ballynegrannah, Co. TipY Prest Thomas Hearn, Darby Griffin, Edward Walsh.

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

Query : Power Family, Cs. Waterford.--The Publisher of the Journal of Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society has sent me by request the current issue of that journal. My cousin who is staying with me from America is a granddaughter of Dr. Garret Power who married Emily Farmer, daughter of

t

Capatin Farmer, R.N., who gloriously perished in the Qaebec off , , Ushant in an engagement with the French frigate La Surveillante

in October, 1779. His eldest son (a lad of seventeen) was made a baronet for his father's services. - My cousin has lost part of the Power ancestry papers, and thought you might probably be able to help her. Dr. Garret Power graduated at Glasgow Uni- versity as M.D. in 1785, under the name of Gerard Power; he was married at Cloyne by license to Emily Farmer in 1796, and his two sons lie buried a t Youghal.

Could you kindly let us know to what branch of. the Power family he belonged, his eldest brother was Pierce Power, possibly High Sheriff, Co. Waterford, 1789. The eldest son was generally

- named Pierce. I believe Dr. Garret Power died by his own hand about 1806 ? The Record Office of Ireland informs me that they have no register as far back as this, and we are not sure where he was born or died, having lost the papers. I am much interested in the Power article of the current issue.

If you could help in any information we should be grateful Dr. Garret or Gerard Power, one of his. ancestors, married Lady

Butler, daughter of the Earl of Ormonde. J. J, PIPER.

18 Cintra Road, Upper Nonvood, S.E.

John O'Daly's Birthplace.-One day recently, while engaged in the Library, Royal Irish Academy, I had my attention drawn by my friend Rev. J, MacErlean, S. J., to an Irish MS. which he was studying, scil. :-MS. 23, E, 14, R.I.A. Herein was appended to some poems of OJBrudair in John O'Daly's hand- :. writing the following note, also in O'Daly's hand, which should dispose for ever of all further question as to the scribe's birthplace :-

i t d y nA ycyiod ~y t e ~ b a p eoga in Ui ~ a o i r h LiotnyA Sedgdn 6 D6ta a mbaite 6.t Ctiat : ~ u y mJ1ona.r5 niWmln r ~ A p n d n A

bpqory-ce m o n e i t g e A cconncde flop-ctdiy~e, rnw A p u ~ a @ m e in re&ra@, 1801,"

[Copied, in Dublin, by me, John O'Daly, from the Book of Eoghan. O'Keefe, and my native place is Farnane, in the Parish of Modeligo, Co. Waterford, where I was born February, 1801.1

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Query : Morris Family of Waterford.-Sir Edward Morris, Prime Minister of Newfoundland, writes, under date July 21st, seeking information of his family which is of Waterford origin :

"My father, the late Edward Morris, came to this country about the year 1826, from the city of Waterford. Beyond that I know nothing. During his life I never interested myself much in the subject, and have practically no information to go on. He must certainly have relatives in Waterford, or some persons there may be able to furnish some information regarding his people. He would have come out here in the days of the sailing vessels, and my recollection is that he came here without any other member of his family-probably with some other emigrants who came at that time. There may possibly be some old reports in the city of Waterford, showing the names of the passengers in those days, and the names of the vessels in which they sailed ; or it may be, of course, that they went from Waterford to some other shipping port, and took passage.

E. MORRIS, Prime Minister's Office,

St. John's, Newfoundland.

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Keating and his Servant Symon.-In the Clanrickarde Memoirs, cxxvi, Dr. Geoffrey Keating is stated to have composed a burlesque poem on his servant "Lymon." This last word I have always taken to be an error (printer's perhaps) for Symon, but although the poem itself is now forthcoming, it has no mention of the servant's name. '

Some eight years ago I found that a version of this poem was in a MS. in the possession of Enri 0 Muirgheasa, at Dundalk, and Seosaph Laoide, who happened to have the MS. on loan, very kindly transcribed for me the lines I required. The MS. in question was written in the year 1637 for Michael Fleming (evidently of the Slane family) by one Eoghan 0 Mearain, or Marron. This version consists of sixty-nine lines, many of which are somewhat obscure in meaning.

A second version, however, turned up in Cambridge University Library, and on my going over to copy it I discovered that the MS. in this instance was dated 1748, and gave ten lines more than Marron wrote, but several discrepancies occur, both as regards words and whole lines.

The cambridge MS., however, gives a very interesting preface which I shall here translate roughly :-

"Doctor Keating had a horrid bodach or servant, the ugliest and most unpresentable being that ever was seen. Nobody living had ever heard him utter a kind word about anyone, good or bad. The doctor's people were not pleased that he should have such an attendant, though no master ever had a more faithful servant. One day, when the doctor happened to be at a spot between Cork and Kinsale, this bodach, addressing him, said 'Master, you laud otherg'highly, but you never praise me though I have served you for twenty years.' 'You cannot be praised' [quoth the doctor] 'you are ugly and beyond description.' 'You must praise me or 'I shall kill you on the instant' [replied the other]. Thereupon, the doctor was obliged to compose for him some verses before leaving the spot where they stood. "

In the meantime I have come across another version in a R.1.A. manuscript which gives no less than one hundred and twenty-six lines, or nearly as many as the In this instance the heading is "The elegy of

Although the composition shows every

other two combined. the live man !" sign of having been

written extempore, the historical references and the many classical allusions are such as could becalled up in a moment only by such an eminent scholar as Keating. I am inclined to think that even now I have not the full text. On another occasion it may be possible to print in the JOURNAL our fullest version with, possibly, a translation.

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Waterford Students in Lowain:-As the whole world knows the Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels, contains a comparatively large mass of valuable MSS. that once belonged to the Irish Colleges of Louvain. Amongst this material I came some time since upon certain fragmentary records relating to the famous Pastoral College. These include some twelve and a-half folios of names of Irish students promoted in arts as well as some sheets containing names of Irish doctors and professors of the University. From the list I transcribed the following names of Waterford andTipperary men with dates of graduation : 1575 Petrus Lumbardus. 1578 Richardus Haii, Waterfordiensis. 1673 Richardus Codii, Tipperanensis. 1702 ' Gulielmus Horlii , 9

1719 Joannes Kent, Waterfordiensis. (1733 Praeses. Coll. Hib. Lou. ; eodern anno 7 Junii,

S.T. Lic. ; Canon ad Petrum Lou.] 1727 Jakobus Power, Waterfordiensis, Ibernus. 1739 7 Thomas Brown, Dungarviensis, Hibernus. 1752 Joannes Canglii, Waterf ordiensis, Hib. 1759': Walterus Power, Waterford. 1761 g:~Lg Thomas 0 'Hern, Lismorensis. 1773 Matt heus 0 Hearn, Lismorensis Hib. 1773 Franciscus 0 Hearn, Lis. Hib. '

[Prof. in Gymn. SS. Trin. necnon Can. Eccl. Cath. S. Donatiani, Bouges ; Coll. Past. Hib. Lou. Praes. ; Diende Pastor ad S. Thomam, Waterfordii.]

1774 Thomas Flannery, Stradbaliensis, Hib. 1774':~ Jacobus Murphy, Waterfordiensis, Hib. 1783 26 Jacobus Joseph Power, Lismorensis, Hib. 1785 't Thomas Flinn, Lismorensis J j

[1783\in Gymn. SS, Trin. Lou. in Rhet. primum palrnam ; post Art. Mag. S. Theol alumnus in Coll. . . . , 1791, 16 Maii electus est in Prof. Syntaxcos in prae- dict. Gymn. ; ad conc. facult. adm. Diende 1790,

, Dim. D. O'Hearn, Rhet. Prof. constitutus. Secessit ' Hib. ibidem 1801 Pastor S. Thomae constitutus.]

1787 : Joannes Power, Waterfordiensis. [Alumnus S. Theol. in Coll. Maj. Theol. ; vie. Prof. Phi'.

functionis egit in paedagogo castri anno 1794. Natione Gallica Belg. invaden. secessit in Patriam.]

1792 Franciscus Power, Waterfordiensis, Hib. There are four and a-half pages sketch history of the Irish

Pastoral College, the greater portion of which is made up of epitaphs and brief biographies of students, professors, and presidents. It informs us that Dr. John Kent of Waterford is buried in the chapel of St. Charles Borromeo, in Louvain Cathedral, From i t also we gather that on Kent's accession to the Doctorate he presented no thesis and hence the proverb, for many years popular in Louvain, when no thesis or 'one not sufficiently imposing was presented- " Est Sleupodium Kent,"

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Query : Shea Family, Carrick Neighbourhood,-Can any reader throw light on the history or fix former home of this family, from Carrick-on-Suir vicinity.

Below is an abstract from the family tree which was worked out for us by an amateur genealogist of ours and has done his best to solve the problem with the aid of books.

As will be seen he comes to the conclusion that my great grandfather, .Henry Shea, who married a Miss Ella Ryan and emigrated to St. John's, Newfoundland, was the son of Henry Shee, Colonel of Horse, Knight of St. Louis, and a Count and Peer of France, and that. his sister was one Fran~oise Shee, who married Baron James Wulfred D'Alton. This couple were apparently the ancestors of the present Norman family of D'Alton Shee, living in France. It would of course account for one of Henry Shea's sons, Sir Edward, being called Edward Dalton Shea after his uncle. The difficulty lies however in substantiating the above relation-

ship and proving Henry Shea's identity and this is where I hope for some help from readers of the JOURNAL. I myself cannot help thinking that Henry Shea was the grandson, not of William Shee who married Maria Therke, daughter of Peter Preponier, but of some brother of his, who remained in re land and did not go to France. If we can only arrive at the identity of Henry Shea the problem is solved.

Carna, Connemara, Co. Galway.

ABSTRACT O F PEDIGREE.

Elias Shea, Forfeited lands in Kilkenny, 1688.

I 1705

Martin Shea = Elinor Burke.

William Shea = MariaTherese, daughter of Peter Preponier. I

1763 1768 Louisa Shee = Thomas Clarke Henry Shee,

of Kilkenny, Colonel of Horse, Colonel. French Knight of S. Louis,

Army. Count and Peer of France.

Henry Clarke, Duc de Feltse, I c

W a r MinisteT t o Napoleon, died 1818.

I 1798 Francoise Shee Baron James

Henry Shea 7 Miss Ellen Ryan. Walfted Y'Alton.

I I Major Henry Shea, R.A.M.C. I . I I

Sir Ambrose Shea, Dr. Joseph Shea John Shea -Mary Corbett. S i r E. Dalton-Gertrude Edward Count Governor of the m. Miss Carson. Mayor of Shea - Corbett. D'Alton Shee.

Bahamas, Cork, 185O:T

Lt. Colonel i. E . M. Shea = Miss Congreve. 'captain A. G. Shea ~ i l e e n ' Norah D.S.O., I

51st Sikhs, Isabel Kathleen 35th Scinde Horse, Indian Army. Shea.

Indian Army.

m.Anne Bouchette of Montreal,

both d . without

I Jean.

I - Elizabeth.

I Isolde.

I I

issue.

i Colonel H. Shea = Miss Stuart. George Shea m.

I I 1 Ambrose.

Dr. Henry Shea m.

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